North Country Blues chords by Joan Baez
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Verse 1
(E minor) (D major) (E minor) Come gather 'round,
friends
And I'll tell (D major) you a tale
Of when the (E minor) red iron ore (D major) pits ran (E minor) plenty
But the cardboard filled (G major) windows
And (D major) old men on the benches
Tell you (E minor) now that the (D major) whole town is (E minor) empty
Verse 2
(E minor)
In the north end of town
My own children (D major) are grown
But (E minor) I was raised (D major) up on the (E minor) other
In the wee hours of (G major) youth
My (D major) mother took sick
And (E minor) I was brought (D major) up by my brother
(E minor)
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Verse 3
The iron ore poured
As the years (D major) passed the door
The drag (E minor) lines an' the shovels (D major)
was a-humming
(E minor) Till Till one day my brother (G major)
Failed (D major) to come home
The same (E minor) as my father (D major) be (E minor) fore him
Verse 4
(E minor)
Well, a long winter's wait
From the (D major) window I watched
My friends, (E minor)
they could (D major) n't have been kinder (E minor)
And my schooling was (G major) cut
As I (D major) quit in the spring
To marry (E minor) John (D major) Thomas, a miner
(E minor)
Verse 5
Oh, the years passed again
And the (D major) givin' was good
With the (E minor) lunch buckets
filled (D major) every season (E minor)
What with three babies (G major) born
The (D major) work was cut down
To a (E minor) half a day's shift (D major) with no (E minor) reason
Verse 6
(E minor)
Then the shaft was soon shut
And my (D major) work, it was cut
And the firing (E minor) air, (D major) it felt frozen (E minor)
Till a man come to speak (G major)
And he said (D major) in one week
That number (E minor) el (D major) even was closin'
(E minor)
Verse 7
They complained in the East
That they are paying (D major) too high
They say (E minor) that your ore (D major)
ain't worth (E minor) digging
That it's much cheaper down (G major)
In South American (D major) town
Where the (E minor) miners work (D major) almost for nothing
(E minor)
Verse 8
So the mining gates locked
And the (D major) red iron rotted
And the (E minor) room smelled
(D major) heavy from (E minor) drinking
Where the sad, silent song (G major)
Made the (D major) hour twice as long
As I waited (E minor) for the sun (D major) to go sinking
(E minor)
Verse 9
I lived by the window
As he talked (D major) to himself
This si (E minor) lence of tongues, (D major)
it was building (E minor)
Then one morning's (G major) wake
The (D major) bed, it was bare
And (E minor) I's left alone (D major) with three
children
(E minor)
Verse 10
The summer is gone
The ground's (D major) turning cold
The stars, (E minor) one by (D major) one,
they're a-foldin'
My (E minor) My children will (G major) go
As (D major) soon as they grow
Oh, there (E minor) ain't nothing
here (D major) now to (E minor) hold them
North Country Blues
Joan Baez
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