Pay Day Come Too Slow chords by
Merle Travis
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Key: G major•
Verse 1
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Modern day workers are
paid every week,
it's a usual thing.
But several years back
around the coal mines
when I was a kid,
C
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they was paid twice a month.
D
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G
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That is when it was paid.
A lot of times I've heard one
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miner say to another,
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how many days did you work this half?
Of course he was meanin' half a month
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that he'd been waitin'
for payday.
Sometime out of half a month
could seem to be half a year,
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especially to a young miner
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anxious for payday to come.
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Whether or not they put it in song,
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I'm sure that they all had the
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same feeling,
that payday come too
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slow.
Gm
Gm
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C
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D
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Verse 2
G
G

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My mama,
C
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she told me about 14 years ago
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D
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G
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Abm
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C
C

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My mama,
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C
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she told me just about 14 years ago
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Said, son, don't be a coal miner,
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D
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cause payday come too slow.
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C
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Then my papa said, son,
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Edim
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C
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I've been a miner for a long,
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C
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Gdim
Gdim
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C
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G
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long time.
Baug
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C
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Yeah, my papa said, look here son,
Em
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I've been a miner for a long, long time
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And payday creep around
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C
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just as slow as Christmas
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Gm
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D
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time
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D
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But then I headed for the mines
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when I was about 15
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And I said to the boss man,
look here, I'm big and I'm mean
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I can roll night and day
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D
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and I ain't never got tired
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So the boss man looked me over
and said, boy you hard
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That's where I made my big mistake
So they put me outside on the tipple,
in the heat and the rain and
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Gaug
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the snow
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C
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Outside working on that tipple,
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in the heat and the rain and the snow
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D
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C
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And the very first thing that I learned,
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is payday just come too slow.
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Eb
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Adim
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Cm
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D
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C
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D
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Well, my sweet baby told me,
Gm
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C
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said, Papa,
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let's me and you have a ball.
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C#
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Yeah, my sweet baby told me,
said, Papa,
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let's me and you go out and have a ball.
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Then for three or four months,
Em
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there was no payday at all.
Edim
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C
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So just about all I've done in
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D
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Abdim
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G
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14 years or so.
C
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About all I've done in these
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Eb
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C
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G
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fourteen years or so
D
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Is work on that tipple
Eb
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Edim
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C
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D
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an d hang around
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the company store
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Ain't nothing else to do
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Well, I'm getting mighty tired
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D
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of getting soaking wet
Eb
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In the pouring down rain
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and my oozing sweat
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I'm gonna leave here in this morning
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D
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And just to prove that I'm gone
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It's gonna take a dollar
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to send a postcard home
And boy, that's a long way off
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When somebody say
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C
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G
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what made that poor boy go
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When somebody say
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just what made that poor boy go
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Just tell him he made up his mind
Eb
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G
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C
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that payday come too slow
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TunerE A D G B E

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ChordsC G D Eb Gm...

  • C

  • G

  • D

  • Eb

    6

  • Gm

    3

  • Abm

    4

  • Edim

  • Gdim

    5

  • Baug

  • Em

  • Gaug

  • Am

  • Adim

  • Cm

    3

  • Abdim

    6

  • C#

    4
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Chords

  • C

  • G

  • D

  • Eb

    6

  • Gm

    3

  • Abm

    4

  • Edim

  • Gdim

    5

  • Baug

  • Em

  • Gaug

  • Am

  • Adim

  • Cm

    3

  • Abdim

    6

  • C#

    4
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Capo: No capo

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