Before The Drilling Rigs Got Here chords by Thom Chacon

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Verse 1
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I am John from Weld County
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Worked this land to raise my family
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We were doing fine until last year
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Before the drilling rigs got here
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Pollute my well and burn my soil
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You raped the earth of a gas and oil
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All was beauty and the air was clear
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Before the drilling rigs got
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here
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Headaches, blackouts,
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and nosebleeds
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Pump jack, poison, and all this greed
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We lived our lives without fear
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Before the drilling rigs
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got here
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Darkness coming,
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I can feel it in my bones
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Man comes with a pocket full of gold
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I  got mules to shoo and I got males to feed
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A woman to hold and dirt to seed
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Got me some wood, gonna put up a sign
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Say, keep your moanin',
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you ain't my kind
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All was beauty and the air was clear
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Before the drilling rigs got here