Key: C minor•
Verse 1
Cm
Come gather 'round friends
Bb
and I'll tell you a tale
Cm
Bb
Of when the red iron pits ran a-plenty
Cm
But But the cardboard-filled windows
Bb
windows and old men on the benches
Cm
Bb
Cm
Tell you now that the whole town is empty
Verse 2
Cm
In the north end of town my own
Bb
children are grown
Cm
Bb
Cm
But I was raised on the other
In the wee hours of youth
Bb
my mother took sick
Cm
Bb
Cm
And I was brought up by my brother
Verse 3
Cm
Bb
The iron ore poured as the years
passed the door
Cm
Bb
The drag lines an' the shovels
they was a-humming
Cm
'Till 'Till one day my brother
Bb
failed to come home
Cm
Bb
Cm
The same as my father be fore him
Verse 4
Cm
Well, a long winter's wait from
Bb
the window I watched
Cm
Bb
My friends they couldn't
Cm
have been kinder
And my schooling was cut as
Bb
I quit in the spring
Cm
Bb
Cm
To marry John Thomas, a miner
Verse 5
Cm
Oh, the years passed again,
Bb
and the giving was good
Cm
With the lunch bucket filled
Bb
Cm
every sea son
What with three babies born,
Bb
the work was cut down
Cm
Bb
Cm
To a half a day's shift with no reason
Verse 6
Cm
Then the shaft was soon shut,
Bb
and more work was cut
Cm
Bb
Cm
And the fire in the air, it felt frozen
'Till a man come to speak,
Bb
and he said in one week
Cm
Bb
Cm
That number el even was closing
Verse 7
Cm
They complained in the East,
Bb
they are pay ing too high
Cm
Bb
They say that your ore
Cm
ain't worth digging
That it's much cheaper down in
Bb
the South American towns
Cm
Where the miners work al
Bb
Cm
most for nothing
Verse 8
Cm
So the mining gates locked,
Bb
and the red iron rotted
Cm
And the room smelled
Bb
Cm
heavy from drinking
Where the sad,
Bb
silent song made the hour twice as long
Cm
Bb
Cm
As I waited for the sun to go sinking
Verse 9
Cm
I lived by the window as
Bb
he talked to himself
Cm
This si lence of tongues
Bb
Cm
it was building
'Till one morning's wake,
Bb
the bed it was bare
Cm
Bb
Cm
And I was left alone with three children
Verse 10
Cm
The summer is gone,
Bb
the ground's turning cold
Cm
Bb
The stores one by one
Cm
they're all fold ing
Bb
My children will go as soon
Bb
as they grow
Cm
Well, there ain't nothing
Bb
Cm
here now to hold them
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