Key: C minor
Intro 1
Am
D
Am
A
Am
F
G
C
Dm
Asus4
A
Verse 1
G
C
and I'll tell you a tale
Am
A
When the red iron ore
Asus4
A
pits run plenty
Asus2
Am
Now the cardboard -filled windows,
G
C
the old men on the benches
G
Am
D
A
I tell you now, the whole town is empty
G
C
my own children have grown
Am
A
I was raised on the other,
Asus2
Asus4
in the wee hours of youth,
G
C
my mother took sick
Am
A
I was brought up by my brother,
G
C
as the years passed the door
they was hummin'
Asus2
G
Till one day my brother,
Am
Asus4
A
The same as my father before him
G
C
from the window I watched
Asus4
A
they could n't have been kinder
Asus2
Asus4
An d my schooling was cut
G
C
as I quit in the spring
A
Am
D
G
Asus4
A
Am
Asus4
miner
Em
Am
A
G
C
and the givin' was good
Asus4
A
filled every season
Asus2
A
Till with three babies born
G
C
the work was cut down
Am
A
And a half a day's shift with no reason
G
C
and more work was cut
Am
A
Asus4
And the fire in the air felt frozen,
A
Asus2
A
and then a man comes to speak,
G
C
and he said in one week,
Am
A
he said number eleven was closing,
G
C
that they're paying too high.
Am
A
Asus4
And they say that your ore
Asus2
A
G
that it's much cheaper down in
the South American in the town,
C
Am
where the miners worked
Asus2
Am
So the mining gates locked
G
C
and the red iron rotted.
Am
A
And the rooms,
Asus4
A
smelled heavy from drinking.
G
C
made the hour twice as long,
Am
Asus4
A
Am
C
as it waited for the sun to go sinking.
G
Asus4
A
Asus2
A
Asus4
D
G
Am
A
C
Am
A
An d the si lence of
Asus4
A
tongues was building
Asus2
A
till one morning I awoke
G
C
and I bet it was bedtime.
and now the summer is gone
Am
G
and the ground is turning cold.
C
Am
A
The stores, one by one,
they are folding
Asus2
A
And my children will go
C
Am
There ain't nothing left here now
to hold me now
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