Key: D minor•
Verse 1
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In the deep dark hills of
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eastern Kentucky
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That's the place where
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I trace my bloodline
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And it's there I read on
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a hillside gravestone
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A
You will never leave Harlan alive
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Verse 2
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Oh, my granddad's dad walked
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down
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Katahrins Mountain
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And he asked Tillie Helton to be his bride
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Said, won't you walk with
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me out of the mouth
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Of this holler
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A
Dm
Or we'll never leave Harlan alive
Verse 3
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Where the sun comes up about
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C
F
ten in the morning
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And the sun goes down
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about three in the day
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F
Bb
And you fill your cup with whatever bit
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ter brew you're drinking
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And you spend your life just
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thinkin' of how to get away
Verse 4
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No one ever knew there was
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coal in them mountains
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Till a man from the Northeast arrived
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Waving hundred dollar bills he said
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I'll pay ya for your minerals
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A
But he never left Harlan
alive
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A
Dm
Verse 5
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Granny sold out cheap
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and they moved out west
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Of Pineville
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To a farm where big Richland River winds
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I bet they danced them a jig,
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laughed and sang a new song
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A
Dm
Who said we'd never leave Harlan alive
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Interlude 1
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Dm
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Dm
Verse 6
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But the times got hard and to
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bacco wasn't selling
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And ole granddad knew what
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he'd do to survive
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He went and dug for Harlan coal
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And sent the money back to granny
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A
Dm
But he never left Harlan alive
Verse 7
F
Where the sun comes up about
Bb
C
F
ten in the morning
Dm
And the sun goes down
Eb
F
about three in the day
Bb
C
F
Bb
And you fill your cup with whatever bit
C
F
ter brew you're drinking
Dm
And you spend your life just
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thinkin' of how to get away
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C
Where the sun comes
Verse 8
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up about
Bb
C
F
ten in the morning
Dm
And the sun goes down
Eb
F
about three in the day
Bb
F
Bb
And you fill your cup with whatever bit
C
F
ter brew you're drinking
Dm
And you spend your life digging coal
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Dm
from the bottom of your grave
Verse 9
Dm
In the deep dark hills of
eastern Kentucky
Dm
That's the place where I
Dm
trace my bloodline
Dm
And it's there I read on
a hillside gravestone
Dm
Dm
You will never leave Harlan alive
TunerE A D G B E
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