Key: G minor•
Intro 1
Gm
Bb
F
Gm
Dm
Gm
Verse 1
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Gm
dark hills of eastern Kentucky
That's the place where I trace
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Eb
a hillside gravestone
Verse 2
Eb
Gm
D
Gm
"You'll never leave Harlan alive"
Verse 3
Gm
F
C
Csus4
berland Mountains
C
Gm
Where he took a pretty
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Eb
girl to be his bride
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Eb
Said, "Won't you walk with me,
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C
Eb
out of the mouth of this holler
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D
or we'll never leave Harlan alive"
Gm
Verse 4
Eb
Bb
ten in the mornin'
Ab
Bb
Eb
three in the day
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Bb
bitter brew you're drinkin'
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Gm
thinkin' of how to get away
Verse 5
Gm
F
C
coal in them mountains
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Eb
arrived
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Eb
Bb
Wavin' hundred dollar bills, said,
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Eb
"I'll pay you for your minerals"
Gm
Dm
D
But he never left Har lan
alive
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Dm
Gm
Verse 6
F
C
moved out west of Pineville
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Eb
Richland River winds
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Eb
Bb
And I bet they danced them a jig
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Dm
D
"Who said we'd never leave Har lan alive"
Interlude 1
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C
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C
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Gm
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Verse 7
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Bbm
But the times they got hard and
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Csus4
C
tobacco wasn't sellin'
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Eb
he'd do to sur vive
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Eb
Bb
He went and dug for Harlan coal
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Eb
And sent the money back to grandma
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Dm
But he never left Harlan alive
Gm
Verse 8
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F
ten in the mornin'
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Gm
And the sun goes down about
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Ab
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Eb
three in the day
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Gm
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And you spend your life diggin' coal from the bottom of your
Interlude 2
grave
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F
C
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Dm
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C
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Verse 9
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You'll never leave Harlan alive
Outro 1
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C
Gm
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Eb
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C
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Gm
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F
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C
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Gm
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