North Country Blues chords by
Joan Baez

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Key: G# minor•

Verse 1
G#m G#m 4
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F# F# 2
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G#m G#m 4
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Come gather 'round,
friends
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And I'll tell you a tale
G#m G#m 4
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F# F# 2
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G#m G#m 4
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Of when the red   iron ore pits ran plenty
B B 2
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But the cardboard filled windows
F# F# 2
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And old men on the benches
G#m G#m 4
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F# F# 2
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G#m G#m 4
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Tell you now   that the whole town is empty

Verse 2
G#m G#m 4
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In the north end of town
F# F# 2
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My own children are grown
G#m G#m 4
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F# F# 2
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G#m G#m 4
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But I     was raised up  on the other
B B 2
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In the wee hours of youth
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My mother took sick
G#m G#m 4
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F# F# 2
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And I     was brought up  by my brother
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Verse 3
The iron ore poured
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As the years passed the door
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F# F# 2
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The drag lines an' the shovels
was a-humming
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B B 2
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Till  Till one day my brother
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Failed to come home
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G#m G#m 4
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The same as my father before  him

Verse 4
G#m G#m 4
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Well, a long winter's wait
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From the window I watched
G#m G#m 4
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My friends,
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G#m G#m 4
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they couldn't have been kinder
B B 2
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And my schooling was cut
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As I quit in the spring
G#m G#m 4
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F# F# 2
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To marry John Thomas, a miner
G#m G#m 4
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Verse 5
Oh, the years passed again
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And the givin' was good
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With the lunch buckets
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G#m G#m 4
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filled every season
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What with three babies born
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The work was cut down
G#m G#m 4
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F# F# 2
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G#m G#m 4
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To a half  a day's shift with no reason

Verse 6
G#m G#m 4
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Then the shaft was soon shut
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And my work, it was cut
G#m G#m 4
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F# F# 2
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G#m G#m 4
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And the firing air, it felt frozen
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Till a man come to speak
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And he said in one week
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F# F# 2
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That number eleven was closin'
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Verse 7
They complained in the East
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That they are paying too high
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F# F# 2
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They say   that your ore
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ain't worth digging
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That it's much cheaper down
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In South American town
G#m G#m 4
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F# F# 2
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Where the miners work almost for nothing
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Verse 8
So the mining gates locked
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And the red iron rotted
G#m G#m 4
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And the room  smelled
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G#m G#m 4
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heavy from drinking
B B 2
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Where the sad, silent song
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Made the hour twice as long
G#m G#m 4
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F# F# 2
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As I waited for the sun to go sinking
G#m G#m 4
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Verse 9
I lived by the window
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As he talked to himself
G#m G#m 4
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F# F# 2
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This si    lence of tongues,
G#m G#m 4
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it was building
B B 2
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Then one morning's wake
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The bed, it was bare
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F# F# 2
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And I's   left alone with three
children
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Verse 10
The summer is gone
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The ground's turning cold
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F# F# 2
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The stars, one by one,
they're a-foldin'
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B B 2
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My    My children will go
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As soon as they grow
G#m G#m 4
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Oh, there ain't nothing
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G#m G#m 4
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here now to hold  them

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TunerE A D G B E

ChordsG#m F# B

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