David Allan Coe – A Cold Lump Of Coal (Guitar)
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SPOKEN: This last song is a song that I wrote which is a song against capitol punishment.
And I would like very much for that to be stated somewhere along the way, that this
is a song against capitol punishment. I wrote this song for my fahter who is
doin' life in Ohio State Penitenciary; he's been there for 23 years.
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G C G There is a story the coal miners tell D In Hazzard Kentucky about a woman called Nell C G She came there from somewhere just her and a child D G And bought her a farm in the valley G C G Now rumor says she had a whole lot of money D That boy never would work a day in his life G C G And all of the miners, those old forty-niners D G Tried harder than ever to make Nell their wife C D C G But Nell was a lady content with the baby D She'd had a good man who was lost in the mine G C G At night she would listen for sounds of his hammer D G And look in the coal miners' faces for signs G C G For years people talked of the pretty young woman D The boy, long neglected, had turned to a man G C G Who walked thru the tunnels in search of his daddy D G And carried a cold lump of coal in his hand C D C G She called the boy David, a name from the Good Book D For she believed prayin' was good for the soul G C G She'd found him abandoned when he was a baby D G Clutched tight in his hand was a cold lump of coal C G C G Now the truth of the matter, she tried to keep secret D But small towns know more than a body should tell G C G And it wasn't long 'til the story was proven D G For someone had murded the lady called Nell G C G The investigation meant questioning David D They hounded that boy 'til he lost self control C G C G It seems on the floor underneath that old lady D G Just touching her head was a cold lump of coal G C G Now witnesses swore 'twas the work of the devil D 'Cause Jesus could never have been that unkind C G C G The jury said guilty, the judge had no mercy D G The boy was convicted of serious crime C D C G And it wasn't long after the boy's execution D A man name of Billy confessed to the kill G C G His conscience was burdened with innocent bodies D G For he swore he'd only been doing God's will C D C G He told in a vision the Lord had come to him D And whispered go down and take that woman's life G C G For she is a sinner not fit to be livin' D G Go down there and kill her but don't use your knife C D C G Now wait 'til the boy leaves to look for his daddy D He'll be forgotten down there in that hole G C G Billy confessed how he snuck up behind her D G And beat her to death with a cold lump of coal G C G Now all of you people that's preaching the gospel D Remember repentence must come from the soul G C G The Lord knows the answer I'm not free to give it N/C (D) (C) (G) For I'm just the voice of a cold lump of coal