Loading Coal

	  		
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INRTO: C G D G 

Verse: 
G                        Em                         
My pappy said when I was seventeen 
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You're six feet tall and you face is clean 
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And it don't look right for a boy that old 
G                    Em 
To not make a livin' loading coal 


Chorus: 
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Loading coal loading coal 
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I'm a double-first cousin to a dad-blamed mole 
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Never get rich for to save my soul 
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And forty-eleven years of loading coal loading coal 

Verse: 
G                                    Em 
Ain't  never  got  aquainted  with a dollor  bill 
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And I don't ever reckon that I ever will 
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A dollar ain't made for a fellow I'm told 
G                       Em 
That scoops up a livin' loading coal 

REPEAT Chorus 

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Verse: 
G                          Em 
I cussed everything in the mining camp 
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From my shovel and my pick to my carbide lamp 
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But I know just as well when I grow old 
G                           Em 
I'll still be a cussin' but loading coal 

REPEAT Chorus 

Instrumental: G C G D G 

Verse: 
G                      Em 
I know just as well as coal is Black 
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One of these days the mines will strike 
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And I'll sit around starving til I'm finally told 
G                               Em 
There's a nickel more a ton for loading coal 


REPEAT Chorus 
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Loading coal, Loading coal, (fade.....)