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