Chords for Jimmy Rose singing "Coal Keeps the Lights On" (The Coal Song)

[Bb] _ [Dm] _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _
He _ pulls _ [Eb] in that _ [Gm] _ _ [Eb] old Chevy _ _ from a second shield. _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ Mama's still _ sleeping, kids [Cm] still crashed at [Eb] our old woman's house. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _
_ _ He [F] goes in through the [Eb] back door, _ _ _ and he don't know where to look.
So he [Bb] _ whines, told us to [F] stop this place.
_ [Cm] _
_ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ He says, Lord, I want to thank you for everything.
[F] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Eb] And the strength you give me, I can't thank [F] by the [C] _ _
_ _ knee.
[Fm] Oh, keeps [Bb] the lights on, _ _ _ [F] _
_ downtown keeps it going. _
[Eb] I got [Bb] young children, _ _ _ cars on trucks and _ [F] sundress.
_ [Eb] Oh, my baby _ girl, _ [F] _ _ _
[Cm] cold keeps [Bb] the fields _ plain.
_ _ [Cm] Clothes on backs and [Eb] shoes on feet [Bb] in the high school halls.
_ Other mountain _ lions and the [F] Bell County [G] bobcats.
_ [Eb] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [F] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ They [Gm] went one down _ crazy [Eb] in Washington.
_ _ _ _ [C] _ _
[F] _ _ _ [C] I'm about to pull in [Bb] the miles, I'm gonna pull [Cm] the sun out from the inside out. _
[Eb] _ _ _ _ _ [Bb] They _ _ _ _ don't [F] care that [G] much about [Eb] the little man, _ or the cow _ [Cm] stands.
It's [Bb] the way of life around [F] here, [Eb] it's just like it's the way you live.
_ [F] _ _ _ Oh, [Cm] keeps [Bb] the lights on, _ _
_ [F] my hometown keeps [Eb] it going.
I'm smothered [Bb] by the young man, _ _ cars on trucks and _ [F] sundress.
[Cm] _ Oh, [Eb] my _ baby girl, _ [F] _
_ [Cm] cold keeps [Bb] the fields _ plain.
_ _ [Cm] Clothes on backs and [Eb] shoes on feet [Bb] in the high school halls.
Other mountain _ lions and the [F] Bell County _ [Bb] _ [Eb] bobcats.
Only you. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[F] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
I _ _ _ [Eb] _ get a _ chance [C] to stand one _ _ day, [Bb] and I get [Cm] the things [Gm] of me [C] that I'm _ [Eb]
most proud of. _ _ _ _
_ _ Well, [F] I hope one day I can _ say, _ _
_ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
_ [Cm] oh, _ [Bb] kept the lights on, _ _ _ [Fm] my _ hometown [Eb] kept the food on the spoon.
_ [Bb] I'm smothered by the young man, _ _ _ cars on trucks [F] and _ _ sundress.
[Cm] Oh, my _ [Eb] baby _ _ [F] girl, _ _ [Cm] cold kept [Bb] the fields plain. _ _ _
[Fm] Clothes on backs and [Eb] shoes on feet in the [Bb] high school halls.
Other mountain lions and the Bell [F] County _ [Gm] _ bobcats.
[Eb]
Only you. _ Yeah! _ _ _
I _ [C] _ _ _ _
hope one day I can say that [F] cold kept [Bb] the lights _ _ _ on.
[F] _
_ _ [Cm] _ _ _ [Eb] Oh, _ _ Lord.
_ [F] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Yeah!
[Bb] _ _ _