Talking Centralia
Talking Centralia

Talking Centralia easy guitar chords by Woody Guthrie

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Guitar
Tuning

E A D G B E

Capo

Fret 2

Capo

Transpose

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Capo
  • G

  • A

  • D

  • C

  • Dm

  • Am

  • Bb

  • G

  • A

  • D

  • C

  • Dm

  • Am

  • Bb

  • Verse 1
    I'm 

    just 
    a miner in 
    a mining 
    town. 

    dig like 
    a mole in 
    a hole in 
    the 
    ground. 

    When 
    the sun comes 
    up till 
    the 
    sun goes 
    down, 

    don't see 
    much sun 
    when I'm down 
    in the ground. 

    Soft 
    coal 
    and 
    hard 
    coal 
    and 
    lead and 
    zinc 

    and 
    all 
    oth
    er kinds of 
    hard 
    stuff. 

    It's 
    a hard 
    liv
    in'. 

    Got 
    up this 
    mornin' 
    in the same ol' 
    way, 


    Drunk my 
    hot 
    coffee 
    to 
    start off 
    my day. 

    My 
    wife gimme 
    breakfast in 

    her stockin' 
    feet, 

    And I 
    kissed the kids 
    in 

    bed, and 
    then I 
    walked 

    down 
    the street. 

    Just 
    walkin' 
    along, watchin' 
    the 
    sun come 
    up, I 

    was just thinkin' 
    an
    d wonderin'. 

    Wonder
    in' and 
    thinkin'. 

    Centralia 
    here is 
    a pretty little 
    town. 

    You can 
    see 

    Illinois 
    for 
    miles 
    around. 

    Can't see 
    too good with 
    my 
    eyes 
    full of sleep 

    though. 
    I'm gonna quit 
    mining some 

    day and 
    I'm gonna sleep 
    about 
    a week. 

    Just 
    solid 
    sleep

    Hard 
    down, 
    hard 
    up, 
    good 

    old 
    warm 
    sleep. 

    Dream 
    myself 
    up a 
    lot of pretty dreams 

    about 
    pretty mine 
    holes 

    and 
    pretty mine 
    bosses 
    and 

    pretty mine 
    owners 

    and 
    pretty 
    wo
    men 
    all over 
    the place. 

    Most 
    men don't 
    talk what's 

    eatin' on 
    their 
    minds 

    about 
    different 
    ways 
    of dying 
    down 

    here in the 
    mines. 

    But every morning 
    we walk 

    along 
    and joke 

    about the 
    mines caving 
    in, 

    the dust and 
    the 
    smoke. 

    One little 
    wild spark 
    of 
    fire 

    blowin' 
    us 
    sky high 
    and crooked. 

    One little 
    spark 
    blowin' us 

    cross -eyed 
    and crazy. 

    Up 
    to 
    shake hands 
    with all 
    the 

    Lord's 
    little angels. 

    Well, 
    we 
    knock at the 

    gate and stand 
    and 
    laugh, 

    An 
    elevator 
    man drops 
    us down 
    his shaft, 

    We 
    scat
    ter and 
    kneel 

    and crawl 
    different places 

    With 
    fumes 
    in our eyes 
    and 

    dust on 
    our faces, 

    Gas on 
    our stomach 
    and 

    water on 
    our knee
    cap, 

    Aches 
    an
    d pains 
    and 
    rheumatis
    m, 

    All 
    kinds 
    of crazy 
    pictures 
    fly
    ing 

    through our 
    head
    s. 

    Well, 
    this 
    spark did 
    hit us in the number 
    five, 

    I don't know if anybody 
    ever did 
    come 
    out alive. 

    I got 
    carried out with a 
    busted head, 

    the 
    lady said 
    there's a hundred and 
    eleven 
    of us dead. 

    Well, 
    this ain't 
    my first 
    explosion, 

    come through 
    two 
    cave -ins 
    an
    d two 
    more fires before 
    this. 

    Twenty -two 
    dead down in 

    Ohio 
    and 
    thirty 
    -six I 
    seen 
    in 

    Kentucky 
    later. 

    And there's a hundred and 
    eleven here in 

    Sun 

    Trail. 

    Well, it seems 
    like the very best 
    men go down, 

    they 
    don't come back 
    in these 
    mining towns. 

    Keep on a -wondering 
    how things would be 

    if a 
    cave -in had come 
    to the 

    Senator's 
    seat. 

    Or 
    a big explosion 
    of 
    some kind 
    was 

    to go off 
    up there in them 

    Congress 
    walls. 

    Wonder what sort of words 
    and messages that 

    they'd write on 
    their 
    slates. 

    Wonder if 
    they'd hire anybody 

    to come down to them 

    Senate 
    cham
    bers 

    and put in some safety 
    devices, 

    nine hundred dollars 
    worth. 

    I think it's just about 
    enough 

    loose gas 

    around that 

    Capitol 

    Dome 
    up there, 
    though, 

    to make a mighty big 

    blow if a spark 
    ever hits it just 
    right. 

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