A Mighty Wind - Blood On The Coal chords by Soundtracks 🎦

Intro:

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Verse 1:

        Dm                  C            C/B
It was April 27, in the year of 91,

        Am                                Dm
Bout a mile below the surface and the warm Kentucky sun.

     Dm                                C                      C/B
The late shift was ending, and the early shift was late,

     Am                                Dm
The foreman ate his dinner, from a dirty tin plate.

Chorus 1:

 Dm                       C                   C/B
 Blood on the tracks, blood in the mine,

 Am                               Dm
 Brothers and sisters, what a terrible time.

             C                   C/B
Ole 97 went in the wrong hole,

        Am                         Dm
Now in mine number 60, there's blood on the coal,

                                 C      C/B      Am
Blood on the coal, blood on the coal.


Verse 2:

           Dm                                 C       C/B
Well, the slag pits were steamin', it was 7:25,

       Am                                   Dm
Every miner worked the coal face; every one of them alive.

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The train came round the corner; you could hear the trestle groan,

         Am                                 Dm
But the switcher wasn't listnin', so he left the switch alone!


Chorus 2:

 Dm                       C                   C/B
 Blood on the tracks, blood in the mine,

 Am                               Dm
 Brothers and sisters, what a terrible time.

             C                   C/B
Ole 97 went in the wrong hole,

        Am                         Dm
Now in mine number 60, there's blood on the coal,

                                 C      C/B      Am
Blood on the coal, blood on the coal.


Verse 3:

           Dm                                C                   C/B
Well, the walls began to tremble and the men began to yell,

            Am                                     Dm
They could hear that lonesome whistle, like an echo out of...well.

      Dm                                        C                     C/B
They dropped their picks and shovels, as to safety they did run,

        Am                                 Dm
For to stay amongst the living, in the year of ninety-one.


Chorus 3:

 Dm                       C                   C/B
 Blood on the tracks, blood in the mine,

 Am                               Dm
 Brothers and sisters, what a terrible time.

             C                   C/B
Ole 97 went in the wrong hole,

        Am                         Dm
Now in mine number 60, there's blood on the coal,

                                 C      C/B      Am
Blood on the coal, blood on the coal.


Verse 4:

         Dm                                   C                        C/B
Now, an Irishman named Murphy said; "I'll stop that iron horse!"

        Am                                      Dm
And he stood to athwart it's passage and it crushed him dead of course.

       Dm                               C                        C/B
And I hope he hears the irony, when e're this tale is told,

     Am                                      Dm
The train that took his life was burning good Kentucky coal. (Hey!)


Chorus 4:

 Dm                       C                   C/B
 Blood on the tracks, blood in the mine,

 Am                               Dm
 Brothers and sisters, what a terrible time.

             C                   C/B
Ole 97 went in the wrong hole,

        Am                         Dm
Now in mine number 60, there's blood on the coal,

                                C    Am, Dm
Blood on the coal, blood on the coal.


CHORD DIAGRAMS:
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 EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE
 xx0231  x32010  x20010  x02210


Tabbed by Joel from cLuMsY, Bristol, England, 2005 (clumsyband@hotmail.com)