Key: Bb major
Intro 1
G
D
G
Verse 1
ghosts in the hills
C
G
And they're black as the coal
D
C
And voices they scream in the night
There was poor Ivy and Scratch
C
G
And friends too many to name
D
C
Who were caught in a thundering landslide
C
G
And I cry
Verse 2
G
Em
For the black lung dyin'
C
D
G
From the Rocky Mountain mines
Verse 3
G
We're much too poor to escape
C
G
The weight of the earth
D
C
In tunnels and dust and fear
Here's our bones for the soil
C
G
Our blood for the land
C
G
Our bodies be damned
C
D
And I cry
Interlude 1
Am
D
G
D
G
C
G
Em
Am
C
D
G
Verse 4
Where my Daddy's gone
But I know he's gone
And he ain't comin' home
Then sometimes I get
C
to wondering
When it'll be my turn to lie down
Verse 5
C
G
Is on the miners head
C
G
'Til he's good and he's dead
I saw my Daddy wave
C
G
From the top of the hill
C
G
I say "Soon I will"
Outro 1
C
D
G
D
G
C
G
Em
Am
C
D
G
Am
C
D
G
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