Intro: F C G Am
F C G Am
Verse 1:
F C
Well you aint got no life anymore
G Am
Each day in a dark coal mine
F C
Working away every day
G Am
With your wife and kids on your mind
F C
You wake up in the morning and grab your hard hat
G Am
Pray that you make it back home
F C
Your body is aching and you just can't take it
G Am
Mining that dark black coal
F C
Dark black coal take my soul
G Am
Owe it to you anyways
F C
Just don't let my children become the victims
G Am
Of the mountains evil ways 
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Verse 2:
F C
And you miss being younger a boy with a hunger
G Am
To get far away from this town
F C
You never knew how or why or when
G Am
Just knew that you'd make it somehow
F C
Now 20 years older shoulder to shoulder
G Am
With boys who we're just like you
F C
Spending their lives underground
G Am
Proving their collars are blue
F C
Dark black coal take my soul
G Am
Owe it to you anyways
F C
Just don't let my children become the victims
G Am
Of the mountains evil ways
F C
Dark black coal take my soul
G Am
Owe it to you anyways
F C
Just don't let my children become the victims
G Am
Of the mountains evil ways
Final: F C G Am
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