Chords for You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive

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_ _ _ _ In the _ deep dark [N] hills _ of _ eastern Kentucky, _ _ _ _ that's the place where I traced my _ _ _ [Eb] bloodline.
_ _ And it's there I [Bb] _ read on [C] a _ hillside [Eb] _ _ gravestone, _ _ [Gm] you'll _ never [D] leave _ [Gm] _ Harlan alive. _ _
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_ _ _ _ Oh my _ _ _ [Bb] grandfather's dead across [F] the _ _ Cumberland mountains, where he [Gm] took a pretty [Bb] girl
to be his [Eb] bride.
_ _ _ [Bb] Said [Eb] won't you walk with [Bb] me out of [C] the mouth of [Eb] this holler,
_ or [Gm] we'll never [D] leave _ Harlan [G] _ [Gm] alive. _ _
Where the sun [Bb] comes up _ _ _ about [Eb] _ [Bb] 10 in the morning and the sun [Gm] goes _ _ _
_ down about [Ab] three [Bb] in the [Eb] day [Bb] and you fill your cup _ _ _ whatever [Eb] bitter brew [Bb]
you're drinking [Dm] and you spend
[Gm] your life just thinking of [Ab] how to [Gm] get away.
_ _ _ _ No one ever [Bb] knew _ there [F] was coal in their [C] mountains
till [Gm] a man on [Bb] the _ northeast [Eb] arrived _ _ _ _ _ waving hundred [Bb] dollar bills said I'll [C] pay for your [Eb]
minerals
but [Gm] he _ never [D] left _ _ Harlan [Dm] _ alive.
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_ _ Grandma sold out [Bb]
cheap and they [F] moved out west [C] of Pineville
to a [Gm] farm where [Bb] they were rich in river [Eb] _ wine _ _ [Bb] and I bet [Eb] they danced in [Bb] a jig and they laughed [C] and
sang a new [Eb]
song who said we [Gm] _ never leave [D] _ _ [Gm] Harlan _ alive. _
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_ _ _ But the times they [Bb] got hard and [F] tobacco _ _
wasn't [C] selling and [Gm] old granddad knew what he'd do [Bb] to [Eb] survive _ _ _ [Bb] he went [Eb] and dug for hard [Bb] and coal
_ [C] sent the money back [Eb] to grandma _ [Gm] but he _ never left [D] _ _ [Gm] Harlan alive.
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Where the sun [Bb] comes up _ _
_ _ _ [Eb] about [Bb] 10 in the morning and the sun [Gm] goes _ _ down _ _ [Ab] about three [Bb]
in the [Eb] day and [Bb] you fill your cup
with _ _ whatever bitter brew you're drinking and you spend [Gm] your life digging coal _ [Ab]
from the bottom of [G] your [Gm] grave _
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