Chords for The L & N Don't Stop Here Anymore

_ _ _ _ I'm glad to _ _ _ _ [Ab] be here.
How about those Cosmos, huh? _
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I have a business today.
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[Eb] They said I didn't have a hair.
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Yeah, _ [C] I'm really glad to be here.
[Bm] This is a cool thing.
I _ always like _ participating in events like this.
I grew up back in the day.
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_ [B] I spent all this week thinking about my sister, _ who needs a lot of therapy. _ _
_ _ _ [Bm] _ Probably a different kind of therapy.
[Bm] _ _ We all need some therapy, and I love that woman to death. _
_ _ Anyway, I wrote a song for her.
I'm not going to play [Bb] it today because [Ab] it really only has one [Bm] line. _ _
[Ab] She was [Bb] up in West Virginia, up [E] on the Ohio River.
[Bm] _ _ _ _ [Bb] There's a lot of coal mining that [G] goes on right around where [B] she lives. _
[G] I spent about five years with her _ [Bb]
[Abm] in the late [Bm] 1980s. _ _ _
_ [D] I wrote a song [Ab] that the woman that we were [Bm] doing a lot of the coal mining with, her name was Jean [Gb] Ritchie.
When [E] _ _ _ [B] _
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I [A] was a young, [Bm] heavy baby, _ _ my daddy [A] sat me down on [Bm] his knee. _
He said, son, you [A] go to school [Bm] and learn to laugh.
_ _ [G] Don't you be no [A] dusty, unarmed [Bm] boy like me. _ _
[A] And I was born and raised at the mouth of [Bm] the Hazard [B] Island.
_ _ [A] Wearing coal cars roaring and rumbled past [Bm] my home.
_ _ Now they [A] stand in the rust of the [Bm] road, what will it be? _
[G] Because at an early man, _ _ [A] _
it don't stop [Bm] here anymore. _
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Well, I used to [A] think my daddy [Bm] was a black man.
_ With script and [A] nothing to buy, [Bm] I thought he was stoned. _
_ _ Now he [A] goes to town [Bm] with empty pockets. _
[Em] Lord, his face is as white [A] as the sand.
You wear [Bm] it, son. _
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[A] And I was born and raised at the mouth of the [Bm] Hazard Island.
_ _ [A] Wearing coal cars roaring and rumbled past [Bm] my home. _
_ _ Now they [A] stand in the rust of [Bm] the road, what will it be? _
[G] Because at an early man, it [A] _
don't stop [Bm] here anymore. _
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Well, last night I dreamt [A] I went down [Bm] to the office. _ _ _
To get my [A] pay like I [Bm] done before. _
_ They [Gb] mow the cuts and piles [A] of work covering [Bm] up the doorway. _ _
[G] And there was leaves and grass [A] growing right up to [Bm] the door.
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I never thought I'd [A] live to learn to [Bm] love the coal dust.
_ Never thought I'd [A] pray to hear [Bm] the temple door. _
_ _ My God, [A] I wish the grass [Bm] would turn to money. _ _
[G] And them greening bags they'd [A] fill my [E] pocket.
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[E] And I was born and raised at the mouth of [Bm] the Hazard Island.
_ _ [A] Wearing coal cars roaring and rumbled [Bm] past my home. _
_ _ Now they [A] stand in the rust of the [B] road, what will it be? _
[G] Because at an early man, _ _ [A] _
it don't stop [B] here anymore. _ _
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