Kathy Mattea – Coal Tattoo (Guitar)

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INTRO: Am Travelling on down that coal town road
F            G            Am
Listen to my rubber tires whine
Goodbye to Buckeye and White Sycamore
    F       G     Am
I'm leaving you behind

    C                      G         C
Oh, I've been a coal miner all of my life

            G          F  G
Laying down track in a hole__

      Am
Got a back like ironwood, bit by the wind

F              G           Am
Blood veins as blue as the coal

F              G           Am
Blood veins as blue as the coal
INTERLUDE: Am F G Am Well, somebody said, "That's a strange tattoo
    F           G            Am
You have on the side of your head."
I said, "That's a blue mark left by the coal
  F               G             Am
A little more and I'd have been dead

    C                     G          C
Oh, I love the rumble and I love the dark

                 G           F  G
Lord, I love the cool of the sled__

         Am
But it's going down that blue road, looking for a job

F              G        Am
Travelling and looking ahead

F              G        Am
Travelling and looking ahead
INSTRUMENTAL: Am F G Am F G Am C G C G F G Am F G Am F G Am Some day when I'm dead and gone
   F           G          Am
To heaven, the land of my dreams
I won't have to worry about losing my job
   F         G         Am
To bad times and big machines

         C                        G      C
Oh, I've got no house, lord, I've got no job

           G       F  G
Just got a worried soul___

      Am
And a blue tattoo on the side of my head

F           G           Am
Left by the number nine coal

F           G           Am
Left by the number nine coal
OUTRO: (## fade to end ##) Am F G Am F G Am C G C G F G Am F G Am F G Am