Chords for Nine Pound Hammer

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Roll on buddy, _ don't you roll [B] slow
How can [F#] I roll when the wheels won't go?
_ _ _ Up in East Kentucky around Harlan and Perry County the coal miner sings a little song called the nine-pound hammer
Now just picture yourself a driving four-inch spikes and hard black oak track tires about five miles back under the mountain
Where the top so low in the mines that you can't straighten up to rest you back just for a minute
And lots of time the air gets a foul back there that you just can't get a good deep breath
_ _ _ This nine pound hammer _
Is a little [B] too heavy
_ for [F#] my size
Honey for my size
I'm going on the mountain
Gonna [B] see my baby
[F#] But ain't coming [D#m] back.
Oh, well ain't [F#] coming back
_ Roll on buddy, don't you roll [B] so slow
How can [F#] I roll when the wheels won't go?
_ Roll on buddy, pull a load of coal
How [G#] can I pull when the wheels won't roll?
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_ _ [F#] _ _ It's a long way to Harlan _ it's a long way [B] to hazard just to get a [F#] little brew
_ Just to get a little brew
_ When [F#m] I'm long [F#] gone, you can make [B] my tombstone out of number [F#] nine coal
out of number nine coal
Roll on buddy
Don't you [B] roll slow?
_ How [G#] can I roll?
[F#] When the wheels won't go
Roll on buddy, pull a [B] load of coal
How [F#] can I pull when the wheels won't roll? _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ Roll on buddy, don't you [B] roll slow?
How [F#] can I roll?
[B] When the wheels won't go
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