Kunci: C minor•
Verse 1
Cm
He walks by slightly bent forward
with his hands clasped behind his back,
for he's a coal miner.
G
You couldn't guess his age.
Cm
He may be thirty and appear
to be fifty.
G
Cm
He's a coal miner.
He neither loves nor hates his work.
He's spent endless hours,
hundreds of feet beneath the earth,
Ab
as he toils in the dark dan
G
Cm
Eb
he awaits another view of daylight.
Cm
G
He'll fol low this cycle
E
G
until his mortal life is spent
F
Cm
G
and then his remains will wait for the eons
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F
G
to change him to the cold that he's
faced all the days of his adult life.
Cm
G
Perhaps in another age
Cm
someone will ironically refer to
G
his remains as black gold,
Cm
G
Cm
for he too will be a coal miner.
There's a breed of man
that I know well,
Ab
G
Cm
cause we are kith and kin.
From the pearly gates to
the brink of hell,
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G
Cm
you'll find these certain men.
G
Eb
Bb
Their youth flies fast, and then alas,
Eb
G
Before their time they're old,
Cm
G
They've sacrificed all the time
Cm
Eb
Ab
Eb
Cm
G
that's passed for cold.
Cm
G
Cm
G
A certain mark on all these men
Ab
G
Cm
Of some sort is in view
For black coal dust beneath the skin
G
Ab
G
Cm
Will leave a scar of blue
Eb
Bb
So on his hands are a pallid face,
Eb
G
The tale in part is told,
Cm
G
Cm
G
Eb
How he has labored at the face of coal,
Ab
Eb
Ab
Db
Eb
Ab
G
Black gold.
Cm
As these men labor at their craft
G
Cm
G
Cm
Like snails the hours creep by
Eb
Cm
Oh, hear their empty, hollow laugh
Ab
G
Cm
A laugh that hides a cry
Eb
Bb
But not a cry that brings a tear,
Eb
G
Each man is brave and bold,
G
Eb
diggin' here for coal,
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Eb
Ab
G
Cm
Ab
G
Black gold.
Cm
Eb
Cm
There's a breed of man that I know well
G
Cm
G
Cm
A man black gold allures
G
Cm
G
Cm
And more than human tongue can tell
Ab
G
Cm
Are hardships he en dures
G
Eb
Bb
Each line upon his face
Eb
G
engraved from nature's special mold
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Eb
Ab
worked and slaved for coal
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