North Country Blues chords by
Bob Dylan

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Key: C minor•

Verse 1

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Come gather 'round friends

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and I'll tell you a tale

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Of when the red iron pits ran a-plenty

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But But the cardboard-filled windows

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windows and old men on the benches

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Tell you now that the whole town is empty

Verse 2

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In the north end of town my own

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children are grown

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But I was raised on the other

In the wee hours of youth

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my mother took sick

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And I was brought up by my brother

Verse 3

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The iron ore poured as the years

passed the door

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The drag lines an' the shovels

they was a-humming

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'Till 'Till one day my brother

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failed to come home

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The same as my father be fore him

Verse 4

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Well, a long winter's wait from

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the window I watched

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My friends they couldn't

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have been kinder

And my schooling was cut as

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I quit in the spring

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To marry John Thomas, a miner

Verse 5

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Oh, the years passed again,

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and the giving was good

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With the lunch bucket filled

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every sea son

What with three babies born,

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the work was cut down

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To a half a day's shift with no reason

Verse 6

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Then the shaft was soon shut,

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and more work was cut

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And the fire in the air, it felt frozen

'Till a man come to speak,

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and he said in one week

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That number el even was closing

Verse 7

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They complained in the East,

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they are pay ing too high

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They say that your ore

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ain't worth digging

That it's much cheaper down in

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the South American towns

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Where the miners work al

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most for nothing

Verse 8

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So the mining gates locked,

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and the red iron rotted

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And the room smelled

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heavy from drinking

Where the sad,

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silent song made the hour twice as long

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As I waited for the sun to go sinking

Verse 9

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I lived by the window as

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he talked to himself

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This si lence of tongues

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it was building

'Till one morning's wake,

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the bed it was bare

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And I was left alone with three children

Verse 10

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The summer is gone,

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the ground's turning cold

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The stores one by one

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they're all fold ing

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My children will go as soon

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as they grow

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Well, there ain't nothing

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here now to hold them

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