Key: F major
Verse 1
F
Dm
In the deep,
F
C
G
dark hills of Eastern Kentucky
Dm
F
That's the place where I trace
C
G
a hillside gravestone
Bb
A
"You will never leave Harlan alive"
Dm
Verse 2
C
G
the Cumberland Mountain
F
Bb
sell to be his bride
F
Bb
F
Said, "Won't you walk with me out
C
G
of the mouth of this holler
Bb
A
Dm
Or we'll never leave Harlan alive"
Verse 3
Bb
C
F
ten in the morning
Eb
F
about three in the day
Bb
F
And you fill your cup with whatever
Bb
C
F
bitter brew you're drinking
Eb
Dm
thinking of how to get away
Verse 4
Dm
F
No one ever knew there was
C
G
coal in them mountains
Dm
F
'Til a man from the northeast
F
Bb
F
Waving hundred dollar bills,
C
G
he said "I'll pay you for your minerals"
Bb
A
But he never left Harlan alive
Dm
Bb
A
Verse 5
Dm
C
G
moved out west of Pineville
Dm
F
Bb
To a farm where Big Richland River winds
F
Bb
F
And I bet they danced them a jig,
G
Bb
"Who said we'd never leave
Interlude 1
Dm
F
C
G
Bb
A
Dm
Verse 6
Dm
F
But the times, they got hard and
C
G
tobacco wasn't selling
F
Bb
he'd do to survive
F
Bb
Well he went and dug for Harlan coal
F
C
G
And he sent the money back to Granny
Bb
A
Dm
But he never left Harlan alive
Verse 7
Bb
F
ten in the morning
C
Dm
And the sun goes down about
Eb
Bb
three in the day
F
Bb
And you fill your cup with whatever bit
C
F
ter brew you're drinking
Bb
C
F
ten in the morning
Eb
Bb
three in the day
C
F
And you fill your cup with whatever
Bb
C
F
bitter brew you're drinking
C
Dm
And you spend your life diggin' coal
Eb
Dm
from the bottom of your grave
Verse 8
F
C
G
dark hills of Eastern Kentucky
F
Bb
trace my bloodline
C
G
hillside gravestone
Bb
A
Dm
"You will never leave Harlan alive"
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