Key: Eb major•
Verse 1
Eb
Fm
Eb
Now come all you gallant colliers
wherever you may be
Whether you work the Rhondda
Gm
Eb
All you who tunnel in the rock and dirt
Gm
Abm
Ab
to earn your pay
Eb
Gm
Fm
Eb
They say your time is almost done
And that coal has had its day
Fm
Eb
We fuelled the ships upon
the sea
And the railways on the land
Eb
Gm
Grew up on every hand
Eb
Gm
We gave the fire that forged
Eb
the steel
Ab
Gm
from which the tools were made.
Eb
Fm
Gm
And the world we live in,
The slagheaps marked our victories,
Eb
Fm
Eb
And we scrabbled at the coal face
in the lousy two -foot seams.
Gm
Eb
But the age of coal is ending,
and the new age needs new skills.
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Gm
Ab
Gm
there's another world to build.
Eb
Gm
And the men who built the old world,
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Gm
their kind will build the new.
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Gm
Fm
Gm
Eb
For a world's not built by power alone,
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Eb
but by men like me and you.
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TunerE A D G B E
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