Coal Tattoo chords by Chuck Ragan

Chords with lyrics

and covered by numerous artists through the years. This version however is mainly
based on Hazel Dickens version, a personal favourite of Chucks. On Capo 5.
This is the second upload because the spacing on the first one messed up.
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Intro (x2): Am, C, Am, C,
         A minorAm C, G, A minorAm

Verse 1:
A minorAm   C/GC/G        A minorAm
Travelin down that coal town road.
C majorC     G+G         A minorAm
Listenin to my rubber tires whine.
A minorAm    FF         A minorAm
Goodbye to Buckeye and white Sycamore.
C majorC      G+G        A minorAm
I'm leavin' you behind.
G+G   C majorC   G+G    C majorC    G+G   C majorC
I've been coal miner all of my life.
G+G   C majorC   G+G    C majorC  G+G   C majorC
Layin' down track in the hole.
FF     A minorAm               G+G
Gotta back like an ironwood, bit by the wind.
A minorAm    C/GC/G     A minorAm
Blood veins blue as the coal.
FF      C/GC/G     A minorAm
Blood veins blue as the coal.

Verse 2:
A minorAm        C/GC/G
Somebody said,
          A minorAm       C majorC    G+G       A minorAm
"That's a strange tattoo you have on the side of your head."
A minorAm
I said,
    C majorC            A minorAm
"That's the blueprint left by the coal.
A minorAm    G+G      C/GC/G    A minorAm
A augmentedA little more and I'd been dead.
A minorAm   G+G    C majorC   G+G        C majorC
Well, I love the rumble and I love the dark.
G+G   C majorC   G+G     C majorC
I love the cool of the shade,
 C/GC/G        A minorAm            C/GC/G
And it's on down the new road, lookin for a job.
 C majorC          G+G         A minorAm
This travelin nook in my head. (Sometimes x2)


Interlude: Intro Chords

Verse 3:
A minorAm         C/GC/G      A minorAm
I stood for the union and walked in the line
C/GC/G         A minorAm
And fought against the company.
A minorAm    C/GC/G        A minorAm
I stood for the U. M. W. of A.
FF      C majorC       A minorAm
Now, whos gonna stand by me?
C majorC         G+G       C majorC    G+G
I've got no house and I got no job,
G+G     C/GC/G       G+G
Just got a worried soul
FF     C/GC/G      A minorAm
And a blue tattoo on the side of my head
FF     C/GC/G      A minorAm
Left by the number nine coal.
FF     C/GC/G      A minorAm
Left by the number nine coal.


Verse 4:
A minorAm       C/GC/G      A minorAm
Some day when I'm dead and gone
G+G          C majorC        A minorAm
To heaven, the land of my dreams.
A minorAm        C majorC        A minorAm
I wont have to worry on losin my job,
  C majorC          G+G     A minorAm
On bad times and big machines.
C majorC         G+G        A minorAm
I ain't gonna pay my money away
G+G         C majorC       G+G
On dues or hospital plans.
C majorC        A minorAm             C majorC
I'm gonna cut coal where the blue heavens roll
FF       G+G      A minorAm
And sing with the angel band.
FF        G+G      A minorAm
And sing with the angel band.


Outro:
FF        G+G      A minorAm
And sing with the angel band.
FF        G+G      A minorAm