Chords for Alice Gerrard performing Mining Camp Blues
Tempo:
108.2 bpm
Chords used:
C
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Eb
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Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret

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[Gm] [F]
[C]
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[G] [A]
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Once I [G] had a daddy [F] and he [C] worked down in a hole.
[F] Once I had a daddy and he worked down in a hole.
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[G] [A]
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Once I [G] had a daddy [F] and he [C] worked down in a hole.
[F] Once I had a daddy and he worked down in a hole.
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_ _ Once I [G] had a daddy [F] and he [C] worked down in a hole. _ _
_ _ _ _ [F] Once I had a daddy and he worked down in a _ hole.
_ _ _ _ _ [G] Diggin' and a _ -haulin', haulin' that Birmingham [C] coal.
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ [C] Many [G] times I wondered [Am] when they took my [C] daddy down.
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[F] Many [C] times I wondered when [Am] they took [C] my daddy _ down. _ _ _
_ [G] Will he come back to me, will they leave him in the ground? _ _ _
_ _ Yodel-ay-ee, yodel-ay-ee, yodel-ay [Gm] _ _
[C]-ee.
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[Em] _ _ [Ab] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
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[A] _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ [D] _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ Oh yeah.
_ _ Somethin' like a picture [F] that they [C] send down in a whale. _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ [F] Somethin' like a picture that they send down in [C] a whale. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Wondering will they break it, lordy, lordy, who [C] can tell?
_ _ _ _ [G] _ It [G] was late one evening, [F] I was [C] standing at that mine.
_ _ _ _ _ _ [F] It was [C] late one [F] evening, I was [C] standing at that mine. _ _ _ _ _ _
[G] Foreman said my daddy had gone down for his [C] last time.
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Yodel-ay-ee, yodel _ -ay-ee, yodel-ay _ [C]-ee. _
[G] _ _ He was a [G] coal miner [F] from his [C] hat down to his shirt.
_ He _ _ [C] _ [F] was a coal miner from his hat down to his [G] shirt. _
[C] _ _ _ _ [G] And I know he's dying with these mining town [C] blues. _
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_ [G] _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
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_ _ Once I [G] had a daddy [F] and he [C] worked down in a hole. _ _
_ _ _ _ [F] Once I had a daddy and he worked down in a _ hole.
_ _ _ _ _ [G] Diggin' and a _ -haulin', haulin' that Birmingham [C] coal.
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ [C] Many [G] times I wondered [Am] when they took my [C] daddy down.
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _
[F] Many [C] times I wondered when [Am] they took [C] my daddy _ down. _ _ _
_ [G] Will he come back to me, will they leave him in the ground? _ _ _
_ _ Yodel-ay-ee, yodel-ay-ee, yodel-ay [Gm] _ _
[C]-ee.
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[F] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _
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[Em] _ _ [Ab] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
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[A] _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ [D] _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ Oh yeah.
_ _ Somethin' like a picture [F] that they [C] send down in a whale. _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ [F] Somethin' like a picture that they send down in [C] a whale. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Wondering will they break it, lordy, lordy, who [C] can tell?
_ _ _ _ [G] _ It [G] was late one evening, [F] I was [C] standing at that mine.
_ _ _ _ _ _ [F] It was [C] late one [F] evening, I was [C] standing at that mine. _ _ _ _ _ _
[G] Foreman said my daddy had gone down for his [C] last time.
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Yodel-ay-ee, yodel _ -ay-ee, yodel-ay _ [C]-ee. _
[G] _ _ He was a [G] coal miner [F] from his [C] hat down to his shirt.
_ He _ _ [C] _ [F] was a coal miner from his hat down to his [G] shirt. _
[C] _ _ _ _ [G] And I know he's dying with these mining town [C] blues. _
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