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Coal, Black Gold

Source Recording: The Country Gentlemen (1981)

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Song Details

Songwriter

Ron Simons

First Release

The Country Gentlemen (1981)

Themes

Mining

Attributes

Minor Chords

Popularity

Uncommon

Source Recording

Artist

The Country Gentlemen

Album

River Bottom (1981)

Key E Time Boom-Chuck Tempo 114 BPM Length 2:15 ISRC USSH59540838

Musicians

Charlie Waller — Lead Vocals, Guitar
Bill Yates — Backup Vocals, Bass
Kent Dowell — Backup Vocals, Guitar
Rick Allred — Mandolin

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Coal, Black Gold

6m 5 1

Coal black gold dark as midnight waters

4 5

Flowing through my memories in the shadows of my soul

6m 5 1 4

Coal black gold you put my daddy under

5 1

Like him I’m growin’ old diggin’ coal

5 1 4

In a model T they came settled in the valley

5 1

Spent thirty years down in this blackened hell

5 1 4

And all my daddy got for all those years of trying

5 1

Was a coal dust covered grave upon the hill

As a child I still remember, those same old tipples hummin’

Those mighty diesel trains would come and go

As a little barefoot boy by the coal yards I would wonder

Man where could they be takin’ all that (D) coal

Was my bride at 17 she long since gave up her dreams

Yes she knows I’ll live and die here digging coal

Well she’s a coal miner’s daughter so it’s not the life she wanted

Like me it’s the only one she knows

4 5 1

Like my daddy it’s the only life I know

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