Coal, Black Gold chords by The Country Gentlemen

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Intro 1

Cold like

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gold,
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darkest midnight waters
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Flowing through my memories
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in the shadows of my soul
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Cold like gold, he put my daddy under
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Like him I'm growing old, digging coal
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And a model tea -day king
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settled in the valley
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Spent thirty years down in
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this blackened hell
And all my daddy got
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for all those years of tryin'
Was a coal -dust -covered
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grave upon the hill
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As a child I still remember
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those same old temples hummin'
Those mighty diesel train
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s  would come and go
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As a little barefoot boy,
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by the coal yards I would wonder
Man, where could they be tak
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ing all that coal?
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Coal, black gold,
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dark as midnight waters
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Blowing through my memories
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in the shadows of a soul
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Coal, black gold,
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you put my daddy under
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Like him I'm growing old,
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digging coal
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Was my bride of seventeen,
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she long since gave up her dreams
Guess she knows I'll live and
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die here diggin' coal
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Well, she's a coal miner's daughter,
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though it's not the life she wanted
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Like me, it's the only one she knows
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Coal, black gold,
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darkest midnight waters
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Blowing through my memories
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in the shadows of my soul
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D 
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Cold like gold, you put my daddy under
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Like him I'm growing old, digging coal
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Like my daddy, it's the only life I know