Come All Ye Coal Miners Chords by Panopticon

Come all you coal miners, whoever you may [Cm] _ be _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Listen to a story that [C] I'll relate [Cm] to thee _
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My name is nothing extreme, [C] but the truth [Cm] you I'll tell _ _ _ _ _
_ _ I [Gm] am a coal miner's [Eb] son, _ I'm sure I wish [Cm] you well _ _ _ _ _ _
_ I was born in old Kentucky, [G]
in a coal camp on a [Cm] bread _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ I know about the pinot [Eb] beans, bulldog gravy, [Cm]
cornbread _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ I know all the miners slave and [Gm] work in the coal mines every [Cm] day _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Eb] For a [Gm] dollar a company's soul, _ _ _ _ four letters is all [Cm] they _ pay
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_ Coal miners are [G] fingers smirkin' all [Cm] day _ _ _ _ _ _ _
They don't sleep and work in the very middle of May
_ _ _ _ _ Coal miners work with [G] guns in the middle [Cm] of the rising sea _
_ _ _ _ _ [Eb] Well their ecological _ system, _ it's doing a few in me _ _ _ _ _
They take a very lot of [C] blood and take it to [Cm] the cross
_ _ _ _ _ They take a lot of the weight of the [G] children and help to [Cm] close the wells
_ _ _ _ _ Coal miners won't sleep or get out [Bb] of where ever you [G] may be _
_ _ _ [Eb] Make this a land of freedom, _ _ _ or work in the U [Cm].D.
_ _ _ _ _ _ Coal miners they won't sleep, they can't [C] work no more
_ _ _ _ _ They can't pay their [G] living on all the coins you stole _ _
_ _ _ _ Run down the channel and if there's no rain, go to [C] the dock _ _ _
_ _ You can't pay your coming rent, _ you're paying [Cm] debt and stuff
_ _ _ _ Well I don't know what social justice you built _ _
_ _ _ But I think the capitalist _ system _ _ is the darkest place to go
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commodity business, every penny they have to spend _ for safety
For wages, for health care, or anything like [E] that
Is money that they see coming directly out of their pocket
And the _ history [G] of coal mining is very clear on this
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It's not a subtle thing, this is an industry that views workers as disposable
_ And views the landscape as disposable
And it's all about [Eb] getting the coal out of the ground
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