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Pay Day Come Too Slow chords by 
Merle Travis 
N/A•
Key: G major•BPM: 92
Verse 1
C
G
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
they was paid twice a month.
D
G
That is when it was paid.
A lot of times I've heard one
D
miner say to another,
Eb
D
how many days did you work this half?
Of course he was meanin' half a month
G
that he'd been waitin'
for payday.
Sometime out of half a month
could seem to be half a year,
D
especially to a young miner
G
anxious for payday to come.
C
Whether or not they put it in song,
Eb
I'm sure that they all had the
D
same feeling,
that payday come too
G
slow.
Gm
G
C
G
D
Verse 2
G
My mama,
C
G
she told me about 14 years ago
C
D
G
Abm
G
C
My mama,
G
C
G
she told me just about 14 years ago
D
Said, son, don't be a coal miner,
C
G
C
G
D
cause payday come too slow.
G
C
Then my papa said, son,
G
Edim
C
I've been a miner for a long,
G
C
Gdim
C
G
long time.
Baug
C
Yeah, my papa said, look here son,
Em
C
G
I've been a miner for a long, long time
D
And payday creep around
Edim
C
just as slow as Christmas
G
C
Gm
G
D
time
G
D
G
But then I headed for the mines
D
when I was about 15
G
And I said to the boss man,
look here, I'm big and I'm mean
D
G
I can roll night and day
D
G
D
and I ain't never got tired
G
So the boss man looked me over
and said, boy you hard
C
G
That's where I made my big mistake
So they put me outside on the tipple,
in the heat and the rain and
Abm
Gaug
the snow
G
C
Outside working on that tipple,
G
in the heat and the rain and the snow
Am
D
C
And the very first thing that I learned,
G
C
G
C
is payday just come too slow.
G
Eb
Adim
Cm
G
D
C
G
D
G
Well, my sweet baby told me,
Gm
C
said, Papa,
G
let's me and you have a ball.
Abdim
C#
C
Yeah, my sweet baby told me,
said, Papa,
G
let's me and you go out and have a ball.
D
Then for three or four months,
Em
C
G
C
G
there was no payday at all.
Edim
C
So just about all I've done in
G
D
G
Abdim
G
14 years or so.
C
About all I've done in these
G
Eb
C
G
fourteen years or so
D
Is work on that tipple
Eb
Edim
C
D
an d hang around
G
the company store
C
Ain't nothing else to do
G
Well, I'm getting mighty tired
D
G
D
of getting soaking wet
Eb
In the pouring down rain
G
and my oozing sweat
D
G
I'm gonna leave here in this morning
G
D
And just to prove that I'm gone
G
It's gonna take a dollar
D
to send a postcard home
And boy, that's a long way off
G
When somebody say
C
G
G
C
G
what made that poor boy go
C
When somebody say
G
just what made that poor boy go
D
Just tell him he made up his mind
Eb
G
C
that payday come too slow
D
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