Key: G major
Verse 1
G
F
C
G
F
C
G
On the western side
C
G
of the old blue mountains
Stands the town of
F
O'Meara
C
G
Way
D
G
It was there I spent my early childhood
G
D
an old steam train
Hauling coal from the
G
Western
Main
Where miners worked with
C
G
picks and shovels
Ten miles or more down underground
Where the wheeler called to
D
G
his old pick pony
G
D
Toby, the skiffs are full
F
C
On the underground line of the
Western
G
Main
C
G
Boys would recall when as a young man
Going down into the mine with the
D
G
cop I'd like to guide me
D
G
Walking with the men out on the
D
G
flat proud to wear a miner's hat
And we came from
G
Bullen
F
G
Lift going well there all the way
We were miners from the
D
Western
D
G
I was there when the roof banged and fell
D
G
We folded our fingers and we dug like hell
F
C
For eight men died at the
Western
G
C
G
Main
F
C
G
D
G
D
G
D
G
F
C
G
Times have changed,
C
G
now since the old days
With continuous miners, shovel cars,
D
G
conveyor belts and no big ponies
D
G
The wheelers and the skips are gone,
D
G
replaced by trucks of modern cars
C
G
The old kid men tell their stories proudly
And reminisce in the early days,
D
G
when they swung the picks and shovels
D
G
D
The mace shot with the gelatine,
F
C
G
Redundant now, like the western man
On the western side of
C
G
the old blue mountain
Stands the town of
F
G
Wollerawang
G
Western
Main
F
C
From the big black hole in the
Western
G
Main
F
C
The big black hole in the
Western
G
Main
F
C
The big black hole in the
Western
G
Main
F
C
From the big black hole in the
Western
D
G
F
C
G
F
C
Main
G
F
C
G
F
C
G
F
F
You
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ChordsG F C D
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