You’ll Never Leave Harlan Alive chords by
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Key: A minor
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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In the the deep,
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hills of eastern Kentucky
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That's the place where I
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traced my bloodline
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And it's there I read on a
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hillside gravestone
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You'll never leave Harlan alive
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Oh, my grandfather's dead
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Across the Cumberland Moun tains
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Where he took a pretty girl
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To be his bride
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And won't you walk with me
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Out of the mouth of this harbor
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You'll never leave Harlan alive
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Where the sun comes up
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About 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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You fill your cup
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with whatever bitter brew
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you're drinkin'
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And you spend your life
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just thinkin' of how to get away
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No one ever knew
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there was coal in the moun tains
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See the man from the
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northeast arrives
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Waving hundred dollar bills
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Said I'll pay for your minimums
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But he never lived taller than I
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Grabbed my son, our chief,
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and they moved out west of Potlick
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To a farm a world bigger,
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richer than River Wines
And I bet they danced,
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they were drinking,
they laughed and sang
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Sing a new song,
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a crusade we can never leave
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Higher than a lie
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But the times they got hard,
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tobacco wasn't sellin'
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And old granddad knew what
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he'd do to survive.
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When in doubt for Harlan called,
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sent the money back to grandma.
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But he nev er left Harlan alive.
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When the sun comes up
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About 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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And you fill your cup
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Of whatever bitter brew
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you're drinking
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And you spend your life
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Take your hope from the bottom of your grave
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