Black Gold chords by
Merle Travis

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Key: C minor•

Verse 1
Cm Cm 3
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He walks by slightly bent forward
with his hands clasped behind his back,
for he's a coal miner.
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You couldn't guess his age.
Cm Cm 3
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He may be thirty and appear
to be fifty.
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He's a coal miner.
He neither loves nor hates his work.
He's spent endless hours,
hundreds of feet beneath the earth,
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as he toils in the dark dan
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gerous dampness,
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Cm Cm 3
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Eb Eb 6
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he awaits another view of daylight.
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He'll fol low this cycle
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until his mortal life is spent
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G G 
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and then his remains will wait for the eons
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G G 
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to  change him to the cold that he's
faced all the days of his adult life.
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G G 
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Perhaps in another age
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someone will ironically refer to
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his remains as black gold,
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G G 
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Cm Cm 3
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for he too will be a coal miner.
There's a breed of man
that I know well,
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Cm Cm 3
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cause we are kith and kin.
From the pearly gates to
the brink of hell,
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Cm Cm 3
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you'll find these certain men.
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Bb Bb 
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Their youth flies fast, and then alas,
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Before their time they're old,
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G G 
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They've sacrificed all the time
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Ab Ab 4
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Eb Eb 6
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Cm Cm 3
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G G 
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that's passed for cold.
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G G 
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G G 
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A certain mark on  all these men
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G G 
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Cm Cm 3
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Of  some sort is in view
For black coal dust beneath the skin
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Ab Ab 4
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Cm Cm 3
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Will leave a scar of blue
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So on  his hands are a pallid face,
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G G 
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The tale in part is told,
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Cm Cm 3
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G G 
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Eb Eb 6
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How he has labored at  the face of coal,
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Ab Ab 4
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Db Db 4
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Eb Eb 6
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Ab Ab 4
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G G 
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Black gold.
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As these men labor at their craft
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Cm Cm 3
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Like snails the hours creep by
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Cm Cm 3
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Oh, hear their empty, hollow laugh
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Cm Cm 3
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A   laugh that hides a cry
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But not a cry that brings a tear,
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Each man is brave and bold,
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Or  he would not be
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Eb Eb 6
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diggin' here for coal,
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Ab Ab 4
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G G 
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Cm Cm 3
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Ab Ab 4
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G G 
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Black gold.
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Eb Eb 6
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Cm Cm 3
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There's a breed of man that I know well
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Cm Cm 3
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A  man black gold allures
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Cm Cm 3
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And more than human tongue can tell
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Cm Cm 3
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Are hardships he en  dures
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Each line upon his face
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engraved from nature's special mold
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The man who sweated,
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Eb Eb 6
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Ab Ab 4
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worked and slaved for coal
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Black gold
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