Tonart: Bb minor
Verse 1
Am
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D
Bm
E
Out of the dirt and darkness I was born,
A
G
go down.
A
E
Em
G
A
Out of the hard black coal face I was torn,
G
and the earth split open.
E
Am
Crawled through a crack
A
G
A
where the rock was broken.
D
A
Burrowed a hole away in the coal,
G
A
G
A
go down.
G
A
In a cradle of coal
D
E
in the darkness I was laid
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G
A
Am
Go down, down in the dirt
E
Em
A
Am
and darkness I was raised
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E
C
Go down, cut me teeth
E
A
Held at the roof with me
G
A
Am
little finger
A
E
Started me time away in the mine
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Am
G
Am
go down.
G
Em
Am
D
On the day that I was born,
E
Am
I was six foot tall, go down.
Em
G
A
Am
And the very nex t day
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Em
G
A
I learned the way to hoe,
D
C
D
E
go down.
C
Am
On the third day worked at
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A
worked on the fourth as
G
A
a longwall filler,
E
getting me steam up ewing the seam,
A
G
A
go down.
G
A
I'm the son of the son
D
E
of the son of a collier's son,
Am
G
go down.
Am
E
Coal dust flows in the veins
Em
G
A
where the blood should run,
Am
A
E
go down.
C
Five steel ribs and an iron backbone,
E
A
teeth that can bite through
G
A
rock and black,
stonework in me time,
D
A
away in the mine,
Am
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A
Am
G
A
G
Am
go down.
G
A
Three hundred years I
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E
hewed at the coal by hand
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G
A
Go down, in the pits of Durham
Em
A
and East Northumberland
E
C
Go down, been gassed and
burned and flown
E
A
Asunder, buried more times
G
A
than I can number
D
A
Getting the coal away in the hole
G
A
G
A
Go down, I've scrabbled
Am
A
D
and picked at the face
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G
A
Go down! Crawl
Am
A
in the seams
Em
G
A
where only a mole could go
Am
A
E
Go down!
C
Am
In the thin -cut seams of
E
A
Where even the rats are born
G
C
Am
A
Bowlegged, winning the coal
Away in the hole
E
Am
G
A
G
Am
Go down!
A
Have worked in the Hutton, the Plessy,
D
E
the Brockwell Seam
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G
A
Am
Go down! The Bencham, the Busty,
A
Em
A
the Beaumont, the Marshall Green
E
C
Go down! I've lain on me back
G
in the old three -quarter,
E
A
G
A
Up to the chin in stinkin' water,
D
A
Hewin' the coal away in the hole,
go down.
Em
G
A
In the northern pits I've
D
E
sweated and earned me pay,
A
Em
Toiled in the worn -out drift mines
A
E
night and day, go down.
C
Where the anthracite is
Em
A
I've tried me hand at the hard rock mining,
D
A
D
E
I dug me a hole away in the cold,
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G
A
G
A
Am
go down
A
Out of the dirt and darkness
D
E
A
I was born, go down
G
A
Em
Out of the hard black coal face
G
A
E
I was torn, go down
C
Left in the shade of the high pit heap,
Em
A
I'm still down there
Where the seams are deep,
D
A
E
I'm digging a hole away in the cold,
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A
G
A
G
A
G
A
go down
A
You
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