Kathy Mattea – Lawrence Jones (Guitar)

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INTRO: Am7 Am Am7 Am Well, the night is as thick as silence

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You can't cut it with a knife

A man lies in the hospital

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Draining out his life

The trucks are on the back road

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In the dark the headlights shine

'Cause there's one man dead

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On that Harlan County line

Oh, anger, like poison

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Is eating at your soul

Your thoughts are loud as gunfire

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Your face as hard as coal

Bitterness, like buckshot

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Explodes inside your mind

And there's one man dead

        C      G      Am      Am7 Am
On that Harlan County line

Oh, a miner's life is fragile

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It could shatter just like ice

But those who bear the struggle

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Have always paid the price

There's blood upon the contract

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Like vinegar in wine

And there's one man dead

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On that Harlan County line

From the river bridge at Highsplint

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To the Brookside railroad track

You can feel the long strake building

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That can never be turned back

The dead go forward with us

    C      G      Am
Not one is left behind

'Cause there's one man dead

        C      G      Am  
On that Harlan County line

Well, the night is as cold as iron

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You can feel it in your bones

It settles like a shroud upon

    C        G        Am  
The grave of Lawrence Jones

The graveyard shift is walking

         C           G      Am  
From the bathhouse into the mine

And there's one man dead

        C      G      Am  
On that Harlan County line

One man dead

        C      G      Am  
On that Harlan County line

One miner dead

        C      G      Am  
On that Harlan County line