Loading Coal Chords by Johnny Cash

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My pappy said when I was [Eb] seventeen, you're six feet [Bb] tall and your face is clean, and it don't look [Eb] right for a boy that [Db] old to not make a living [Gm] loading coal. _ _
_ Loading coal, loading coal, [Eb] I'm a double first cousin to a [Bb] dad-blame mole, never get [Eb] rich for to save my [F] soul in forty-eleven [Gm] years of loading coal. _ _
[Bb] Loading coal, _ _ _ _ _ ain't never got [F] acquainted with a dollar [Gm] bill, and I don't ever reckon that I [Bb] ever will, a dollar ain't [Eb] made for a fella I'm [Db] told that scoops up a living loading [Gm] coal.
_ _ _ [F] Loading coal, loading coal, [Eb]
I'm a double first cousin to a [Bb] dad-blame mole, never get [Eb] rich for to save my soul in forty-eleven years of [Gm] loading coal.
_ _ Loading [Bb] coal, _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ I cussed everything in my mining camp, from my shovel and my pick to my carbide lamp, but I know mighty [Eb] well till I grow old I'll [Gm] still be a cousin to the loading coal.
_ _ _ Loading [Bb] coal, loading [Eb] coal, I'm a double first cousin to a dad-blame [Bb] mole, never get [Eb] rich for to save my [C] soul in forty-eleven years of [Gm] loading coal.
_ _ Loading [Bb] coal, _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ I know just as well as coal is [Eb] black, one of these days the [Bb] mines will strike, and I'll sit around [Eb] starving till I'm finally [C] told there's a nickel more [G] a ton for loading coal.
_ _ _ [Bb] Loading coal, loading coal, I'm a double first cousin to a dad-blame mole, never get [Eb] rich for to save my soul in [Cm] forty-eleven years of [Gm] loading coal.
_ _ _ Loading coal, _ _ _ _ loading coal, _ _ _ _ loading coal.
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