Sting – We Work The Black Seam (Guitar)

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[Vers 1]
     Am
This place has changed for good

     C        Em7            Am
Your economic theory said it would

     Am
It's hard for us to understand

   C                 Em7            Am
We can't give up our jobs the way we should

   Am
Our blood has stained the coal

   C             Em7               Am
We tunneled deep inside the nation's soul

  Am
We matter more than pounds and pence

     C        Em7            Am
Your economic theory makes no sense
[Chorus]
F            C
One day in a nuclear age

Dm                     Am
They may understand our rage

     F                         C
They build machines that they can't control

Dm                      Am
And bury the waste in a great big hole

F                   C
Power was to become cheap and clean

Dm               Am
Grimy faces were never seen

F                 C                 Dm
Deadly for twelve thousand years is carbon fourteen

Am
We work the black seam together

Am
We work the black seam together
[Vers 2]
  Am
The seam lies underground

      C                Em7            Am
Three million years of pressure packed it down

   Am
We walk through ancient forest lands

    C                Em7            Am
And light a thousand cities with our hands

  Am
Your dark satanic mills

     C              Em7            Am
Have made redundant all our mining skills

  Am
You can't exchange a six inch band

      C                Em7            Am
For all the poisoned streams in Cumberland
[Chorus]
F            C
One day in a nuclear age

Dm                     Am
They may understand our rage

     F                         C
They build machines that they can't control

Dm                      Am
And bury the waste in a great big hole

F                   C
Power was to become cheap and clean

Dm               Am
Grimy faces were never seen

F                 C                 Dm
Deadly for twelve thousand years is carbon fourteen

Am
We work the black seam together

Am
We work the black seam together
[Vers 3]
 Am
Should the children weep

      C                Em7            Am
The turning world will sing their souls to sleep

  Am
When you have sunk without a trace

      C                Em7            Am
The universe will suck me into place
Am [Chorus]
F            C
One day in a nuclear age

Dm                     Am
They may understand our rage

     F                         C
They build machines that they can't control

Dm                      Am
And bury the waste in a great big hole

F                   C
Power was to become cheap and clean

Dm               Am
Grimy faces were never seen

F                 C                 Dm
Deadly for twelve thousand years is carbon fourteen

Am
We work the black seam together

Am
We work the black seam together