Key: E major•
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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you're off to the coal town tonight
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And your young brother Ernie's
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You know mother loves you,
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and dad's in the mine
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So don't go to the coal town,
Verse 2
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She loves a young man and
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he lives in the town
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He leaves the house early for
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He makes a good wage for
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a coal miner's son
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And she's a bit pretty,
just turned twenty-one
Verse 3
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off to the coal town tonight
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And your young brother Ernie's
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You know mother loves you,
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and dad's in the mine
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So don't go to the coal town, Guinevere,
Interlude 1
shut the blind
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Verse 4
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She knows her good mother's
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not feelin' no pain
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She remembers an explosion
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She paints her thin lips in
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way
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Then she says to the daughter,
dear daughter I pray
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Verse 5
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to the coal town tonight
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And your young brother Ernie's
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You know mother loves you,
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and dad's in the mine
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So don't go to the coal town,
Outro 1
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsE A B
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