Misc Traditional – Coal Town Road (Guitar)

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We get up in the black, down the coal town road

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And we hike along the track, where the coal trains load

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And we make the ponies pull, 'til they nearly break their backs

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And they'll never see again, down the coal town road

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We hear the whistle call, down the coal town road

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And we take our towels and all, where the coal trains load

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In the cages then we drop, 'til there's nowhere else to fall

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And we leave the world behind us, down the coal town road

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We never see the sun, down the coal town road

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At a penny for a ton, where the coal trains load

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When the shift comes up on top, we're so thankful to be done

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We head home to sleep and dream, about the coal town road

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There's miners' little sons, down the coal town road

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Playing with their cowboy guns, where the coal trains load

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But they'd better make the best of, their childhood while it runs

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There's a pick and shovel waiting, down the coal town road

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If there's a God for us, down the coal town road

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All the miners He can bless, where the coal trains load

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For we're sweating in the hole, sucking down the devil's dust

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Just to keep the fires a-blazing, down the coal town road

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We get up in the black, down the coal town road

       G                                Em          A
And we hike along the track, where  the coal trains load

       D                               G
And we make the ponies pull, 'til they nearly break their backs

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And they'll never see again, down the coal town road