Steve Earle – Black Lung (Guitar)

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Sunrise lighting up the ridge tops

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Slicing through the frost like a red hot knife

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Sometimes I'm dreaming I'm a running across

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But I couldn't now to save my life

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Hound dog, yipping in the holler

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Must have jumped a bear bubba brother, listen to him run

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Somebody oughta catch him by the collar

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But I ain't going nowhere 'cause I'm down with black lung

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Black lung never gets better

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Every breath a little bit harder to draw

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Shotgun loaded in the corner

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Reckon I'mma lay here and die of black lung

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Someday's are better than the others

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Sit out on the porch when it's cool at night

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Can't say there ain't some suffering

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Every breath I take like a twelve round fight

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Grandbabies out beneath the willow tree

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Hollering and laughing, and it sound like fun

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Can't pick 'em up, hug 'em all, anyway

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Sorry honey granddaddy's got a black lung

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Black lung never gets better

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Every breath a little bit harder to draw

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Shotgun loaded in the corner

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Reckon I'm a lie here and die of black lung

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It seemed like it was only yesterday

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I pulled my first shift down a longwall mine

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First breath of fresh air at the whistle

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And I already knew it's just a matter of time

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If I'd never been down in a coal mine

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I'd live a lot longer, hell that ain't a close call

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But then again I'd've never had anything

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And half a life is better than nothing at all

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Black lung never gets better

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Every breath a little bit harder to draw

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Shotgun loaded in the corner

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Reckon I'm a lie here and die of black lung

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Black lung never gets better

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Every breath a little bit harder to draw

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Shotgun loaded in the corner

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Reckon I'm a lie here and die of black lung

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Black lung

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Never gets better

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Every breath a little bit harder to draw

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Shotgun loaded in the corner

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Reckon I'mma lay here and die of black lung