Misc Originals – Ben Strong - Coal Boy (Guitar)

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Coal Boy Ben Strong [Verse 1]
C            F
I am just a coal boy

                         G
In the mines I spend my days.

 C                F
Papa and I each morning

                       G
Come here to earn our pay.

Am
I work at the doors of the airway

                   G
Coal cars pass my way

        C                           F
To the sound of the picks and the shovels

                        G
And the fight to keep awake.
[Chorus]
Am                          C
Mama says someday we’ll be movin’

                      G
Some sunny southern place

           F
Where the cold wind’s seldom blowin’

                 G
Not today not today.
[Verse 2]
   C                F
I can hear the old mule callin’

                         G
As she slowly picks her way

 C                            F
Down the dark and the lonely tunnel

                    G
To where I sit and wait.

   Am
I know just what she’s thinking

                  G
As I open up the gate

   C                       F
I wish that I was turnin’ soil.

                            G
And I tell her I think the same.
[Chorus]
Am                          C
Mama says someday we’ll be movin’

                      G
Some sunny southern place

           F
Where the cold winds seldom blowin’

                 G
Not today not today.
[Verse 3]
    C               F
I awake in the moonlight

                      G
As I ready myself to go.

        C                  F
I can smell the leaves a-changin’

                        G
And I wish to see them so.

 Am
With a kiss for me and for Papa

                       G
Mama speeds us on our way

            C              F
And she’ll wait for our returnin’

                      G
At the ending of the day.
[Chorus]
Am                          C
Mama says someday we’ll be movin’

                      G
Some sunny southern place

           F
Where the cold winds seldom blowin’

                 G
Not today not today.