Coal Tattoo Chords by Hazel Dickens

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_ _ _ [F] _ _ [C] _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Dm] _
_ _ _ [F] _ _ [Am] _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [C] _ [D] _ _
_ _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _
_ [F] _ _ [D] _ _ [C] _ _ [Dm] _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ I'm leaving you behind.
I've been a coal town [Dm] road, listen to [C] my [D] rubber tars _ whine.
[Dm] Goodbye to Buckeye, white [Am] Sycamore, I'm leaving you [D]
behind.
_ _ [F] I've been a coal [C] miner all [F] my life, laying [Am] down track [Dm] in the [Gb] hole.
[F] Got it back like an [Dm] ironwood bent [F] by the wind.
[Dm] Blood [C] veins as blue [D] as the coal.
_ _ _ _ [C] _ _ [D] _
_ _ [Dm] Well somebody said that's a strange tattoo you [C] have on the side of [Dm] your head.
_ Said that's a blue mark left by the [F] coal, a little [C] more and I'd have [D] been dead.
_ [F] I like the [C] rumble, [F] I like the dark lord, I [Am] like the [D] blue of the sleigh.
[E] [F] But it's gone down that [Dm] new road looking for a job, [C] traveling and looking [Dm] I hate.
_ _ _ [C] Traveling and [Dm] looking I hate. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [F] _ _ [C] _ _ _
[Dm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ [F] I'm leaving you [C] _ _ [Bb]
behind.
[G] _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ [Dm] _
I've _ been a coal [C] town road, _ [Dm]
listen to my rubber tars whine.
_ _ _ [C] _ _ [Dm] _
_ _ I stood for the union, walked in their lines, [F] fought [C] against the _ [Dm]
company.
_ _ Stood for the _ UMW of A, [F] _ [C] who's gonna [D] stand by me?
_ _ [F] Got no house, [Am] ought to got [F] no pay, just [C] got a [Dm] worried [Am] soul.
[E] [F] And this blue [Dm] tattoo on the side [F] of my [D] head, left [C] by the number [Dm]
nine coal.
_ _ Left [G] by the number [Dm]
nine coal.
Well someday when I'm dead and gone, [Am] heaven will end [Dm] my dream.
_ Won't have to worry about losing my job, [F] hard [C] times and [Dm] big machines.
_ [F] Won't have to [C] pay my money [F] away on [Am] dues and [Bb] hospital _ [E] plans.
[F] I'm not gonna cut [Dm] coal for the blue heaven's roll.
_ [C] Sang with the [Dm] angel band, _ _ [C] sang with [D] the angel band.
[Dm] Well I'm traveling on down that coal town road, listen [C] to my [Dm] rubber tars whine.
_ Goodbye to Buckeye, White, Sycamore, [C] I'm leaving [D] you behind. _ _ _ _ _
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