Chords with lyrics
Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)
🎸 Intro:
C majorC G+G A minorAm FF C majorC G+G A minorAm Am
🎸 Verse 1:
FF C majorC
Well you aint got no life anymore.
G+G A minorAm
Each day in a dark coal mine.
FF C majorC
Working away every day
G+G A minorAm
with your wife and kids on your mind.
FF C majorC
You wake up in the morning and grab your hard hat.
G+G A minorAm
Pray that you make it back home.
FF C majorC
Your body is aching and you just can't take it
G+G A minorAm
mining that dark black coal.
🎸 Chorus:
FF C majorC
Dark black coal take my soul
G+G A minorAm
owe it to you anyways.
FF C majorC
Just don't let my children become the victims
G+G A minorAm
of the mountains evil ways.
🎸 Bridge:
FF C majorC G+G A minorAm
🎸 Verse 2:
FF C majorC
And you miss being younger a boy with a hunger
G+G A minorAm
to get far away from this town.
FF C majorC
You never knew how or why or when
G+G A minorAm
just knew that you'd make it somehow.
FF C majorC
Now 20 years older shoulder to shoulder
G+G A minorAm
with boys who we're just like you
FF C majorC
Spending their lives underground
G+G A minorAm
proving their collars are blue.
🎸 Chorus:
FF C majorC
Dark black coal take my soul
G+G A minorAm
owe it to you anyways.
FF C majorC
Just don't let my children become the victims
G+G A minorAm
of the mountains evil ways.
FF C majorC
Dark black coal take my soul
G+G A minorAm
owe it to you anyways.
FF C majorC
Just don't let my children become the victims
G+G A minorAm
of the mountains evil ways.
🎸 Outro:
FF C majorC G+G A minorAm