North Country Blues

North Country Blues easy guitar chords by Joan Baez

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Guitar
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E A D G B E

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Fret 4

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  • Em

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  • Verse 1
    Come 
    gather 
    'round, 

    friends 

    And 
    I'll 
    tell 
    you 
    tale 

    Of 
    when 
    the 
    red 
    iron 
    ore 
    pits 
    ran 
    plenty 

    But 
    the 
    cardboard 
    filled 
    windows 

    And 
    old 
    men 
    on 
    the 
    benches 

    Tell 
    you 
    now 
    that 
    the 
    whole 
    town 
    is 
    empty 

    Verse 2

    In 
    the north 
    end 
    of 
    town 

    My 
    own 
    children 
    are 
    grown 

    But 
    was 
    raised 
    up 
    on 
    the 
    other 

    In 
    the 
    wee 
    hours 
    of 
    youth 

    My 
    mother 
    took 
    sick 

    And 
    was 
    brought 
    up 
    by 
    my 
    brother 

    Verse 3

    The 
    iron 
    ore 
    poured 

    As 
    the years 
    passed 
    the 
    door 

    The drag 
    lines 
    an' 
    the shovels 

    was 
    a-humming 

    Till 
    Till 
    one 
    day 
    my 
    brother 

    Failed 
    to 
    come 
    home 

    The same 
    as 
    my 
    father 
    be
    fore 
    him 

    Verse 4

    Well, 
    long 
    winter's 
    wait 

    From 
    the 
    window 
    watched 

    My 
    friends, 

    they 
    could
    n't 
    have been 
    kinder 

    And 
    my 
    schooling 
    was 
    cut 

    As 
    quit 
    in 
    the spring 

    To 
    marry 
    John 
    Thomas, 
    a miner 

    Verse 5

    Oh, 
    the years 
    passed 
    again 

    And 
    the 
    givin' 
    was 
    good 

    With 
    the 
    lunch 
    buckets 

    filled 
    every 
    season 

    What 
    with 
    three 
    babies 
    born 

    The 
    work 
    was 
    cut 
    down 

    To 
    half 
    day's 
    shift 
    with 
    no 
    reason 

    Verse 6

    Then 
    the shaft 
    was 
    soon 
    shut 

    And 
    my 
    work, 
    it 
    was 
    cut 

    And 
    the firing 
    air, 
    it 
    felt 
    frozen 

    Till 
    man 
    come 
    to speak 

    And 
    he said 
    in 
    one 
    week 

    That 
    number 
    el
    even 
    was 
    closin' 

    Verse 7

    They 
    complained 
    in 
    the 
    East 

    That 
    they 
    are paying 
    too 
    high 

    They 
    say 
    that 
    your 
    ore 

    ain't 
    worth 
    digging 

    That 
    it's 
    much 
    cheaper 
    down 

    In 
    South 
    American 
    town 

    Where 
    the 
    miners 
    work 
    almost 
    for nothing 

    Verse 8

    So 
    the 
    mining 
    gates 
    locked 

    And 
    the 
    red 
    iron 
    rotted 

    And 
    the 
    room 
    smelled 

    heavy 
    from 
    drinking 

    Where 
    the sad, 
    silent 
    song 

    Made 
    the 
    hour 
    twice 
    as 
    long 

    As 
    waited 
    for 
    the sun 
    to 
    go 
    sinking 

    Verse 9

    lived 
    by 
    the 
    window 

    As 
    he 
    talked 
    to 
    himself 

    This 
    si
    lence 
    of 
    tongues, 

    it 
    was 
    building 

    Then 
    one 
    morning's 
    wake 

    The 
    bed, 
    it 
    was 
    bare 

    And 
    I's 
    left 
    alone 
    with three 

    children 

    Verse 10

    The summer 
    is 
    gone 

    The ground's 
    turning 
    cold 

    The stars, 
    one 
    by 
    one, 

    they're 
    a-foldin' 

    My 
    My 
    children 
    will 
    go 

    As 
    soon 
    as 
    they 
    grow 

    Oh, 
    there 
    ain't 
    nothing 

    here 
    now 
    to 
    hold 
    them 


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