Chords for Pitmen Poets 2013

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_ _ _ _ _ Party time.
_ _ _ Okay.
[Bb] Yeah, sure. _
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_ _ _ _ We sing our [F] bands to [C] sleep with [Am] songs that workers make.
_ _ [G] _ [Dm] Fill them with black dust, _ [C] bogeymen, [Am] when day is done.
_ But [Dm] these gorse [C] and mighty giants are [A] no [Am] fairy tale.
_ _ [F] But men that [C] walked the monsters once, but [Dm] now they're gone.
_ _ These things [Bb] I know, [C] though the pitman [A] poets told me _ _ so. _
These [Bb] things I know, [C] though the pitman poets [Dm] _ [Am] told me so.
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[Dm] _ _ They jowl, jowl, and listen [C] as [Am] they're hacked in _ _ pings.
[Dm] A lifetime of limb by a [C] lamplight, not [Am] by sky or [A] _ _
sun.
[G] [Dm] And through the [C] ground beneath our feet [Am] they chewed and _ _
[A] licked.
Some [F] were swallowed [C] with a mighty swipe of [Dm] the earth's own tongue.
These things [Gm] I know, [C] though the pitman [A] poets [Am] told me _ so.
_ [A] _ _ These things [Bb] I _ [C] know, though the pitman poets [Am] told me so. _ _
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_ _ _ Watched and [C] waited, ever [Am] strong and _ bold.
[Dm] And laughed and loathed [C] despite so many [Am] mouths to feed. _ _
[Dm] And they damned the [C] fat cat masters [A] and the lies they _ told. _
[F] As they _ [C] sacrificed good men to the gods [Dm] of gain and grief.
These [Bb] things I know, [C] though the pitman _ [A] poets told [Am] me _ _ _ so.
[A] These things [Bb] I know, [C] though the pitman poets [Am] _
told me so.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ Then the pulley wheels and the [C] white machines [Am] grew cold and still.
_ _ _ [G] [Dm] And unions laid [G] broken by [A]
deceit and [Am] lies.
_ _ [G] [Dm] Sad eyes were [C] left to stare down [Am] from a pit boot hill.
_ [D] But [F] the glory [C] of the lives they led [Dm] will never die.
_ These [Gm] things I know, _ [C] though the pitman _ [A]
poets [Am] told me _ so. _
[A] _ These things [Bb] I know, [C] though the pitman poets [Am] told me so.
_ _ _ These [Bb] things I know, [C] though the pitman _ [A] poets [Am] told me _ so.
_ [A] _ These things [Gm] I know, [C] though the pitman poets [Dm]
told me so.
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