Black Lung chords by Hazel Dickens

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Verse 1
Am 
G# 
Am 
He's had more hard luck
G 
Am 
than most men could stand.
G# 
Am 
The mines was his first love,
G 
but never  his friend.
Ab 
Ebm 
Ab 
He's lived a hard life,
G 
G# 
and hard he'll die.
Am 
Black lung's done got him,
G# 
G 
Ab 
his time is nigh.
Black lung, black lung,
you're just biding your time.
Ab 
Bbm 
Soon all this suffering I'll
Ab 
G 
leave be hind,
Ab 
Am 
Ab 
Bbm 
Ab 
But I can't help but wonder
Ab 
what God had in mind
to send such a devil
G 
G# 
to claim this soul of mine.
G# 
He went to the boss man,
but he closed the door.
G# 
Am 
G# 
Well, it seems   you're not wanted
Am 
G 
Am 
when you're sick and
G 
you're poor.
Am 
You're not even covered
G 
G# 
in their medical plans,
and your life depends on
G 
the favors of man.
Am 
G# 
Down in the poorhouse
G 
G# 
on starvation's plan,
where pride is a stranger
Ab 
and doomed is  a man.
G# 
His soul full of coal dust
G 
G# 
till his body's decayed,
And every one but
Am 
Black Lungs done
G 
Am 
C# 
turned him away.
Am 
C 
G# 
Black Lung, Black Lung,
Am 
oh, your hands I see cold.
G# 
G# 
As you reach for my life
Bbm 
and you torture my soul,
Bbm 
G# 
Cold as that water hole
G# 
down in that dark cave
C# 
G# 
Where I spent my life's blood
G 
digging my own grave
G# 
Down at the graveyard
Bbm 
the boss man came
G# 
G# 
C# 
With his little bunch of flowers
G# 
Bbm 
Dear God, what a shame
Take back those flowers,
G# 
C# 
don't you sing those sad songs.
G# 
The die has been cast now,
G# 
G# 
a good man is  gone.