Chris Jones & Steve Baker - L&N Chords

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_ When _ _ [E] _ _ _
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_ I was a curly haired baby, _ my daddy sat me down upon his knee.
_ He said, son, you go to school and learn your letters.
_ [Am] Don't you be a [Em] dusty coal miner [A] like me.
_ I was born and raised in the mountains of the Hazard Father.
_ With the coal cars [F#m] rumblin' and rollin' [A] past my door.
Now the [E] sand and rust grow [A] all empty.
_ [F] Yellin' in, [Em] don't stop [D] hearin' him. _
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_ I used to think my daddy was a rich man.
_ Had scripted enough to buy the company store.
_ _ Now he [G] goes downtown with [A] empty pockets.
_ [F] Got a face as [E] white as February [A] snow.
[Am] I [E] was born and raised in the mountains of the [A] Hazard Father.
[Am] _ [D] With the coal cars rumblin' and rollin' [A] past my door.
_ [Am] _ Now the [G] sand and rust grow [A] all [E] empty.
_ [F] Yellin' in, [Em] don't stop hearin' him.
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_ Last night I dreamt I went down to the office.
_ _ [Am] Draw my [E] page like I done before. _
And there'd be old [A] vines growin' through the windows.
[F] And there's trees and [B] grass growin' [A] through the floor.
_ [E] I was born and raised in the mountains of the [A] Hazard Father.
_ [D] With the coal cars rumblin' and rollin' [Am] past my door.
[A] _ Now the sand [D] and rust grow [A] all empty.
[Am] _ _ [F] Yellin' [Em] in, don't stop hearin' [A] him.
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_ I never [Bm] thought I'd live to love the [A] coal dust.
[Am] Never thought [E] I'd pray to hear that tipple [A] roar.
_ _ Lord [E] I wish the grass would [A] turn to money.
_ _ [F] The [E] greenbacks fill my pockets [Am] once more.
_ I [D] was born and raised in the mountains [A] of the Hazard Father.
_ _ [D] With the coal cars rumblin' and rollin' [A] past my door.
[Am] _ Now the [G] sand and rust [A] grow all [Em] empty.
_ [F] Yellin' in, don't stop hearin' him. _
[A] I was born and [D] raised in the mountains of the [A] Hazard Father.
_ [D] With the coal cars rumblin' and rollin' [A] past my door.
_ [Am] _ Now the sand and rust grow all empty.
_ [F] Yellin' [Em] in, don't stop hearin' him.
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