4 Chords used in the song: Am, C, G, D

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Verse 1:
Am
C
G
D
D
Now God made coal for the men who sold their lives to West Van Lear
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And you keep on diggin' 'til you get down there where it's darker than your darkest
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fear.
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And that woman in the kitchen tries to keep on cookin' but she ain't had meat in years
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Just live off bread and live off hope and a pool of a million tears.
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Now lemme tell you somethin' 'bout the Gospel and make sure that you mark it down
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When God spoke out "Let there be light" he put the first of us in the ground.
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And we'll keep on diggin' 'til the comin' of the lord and Gabriel's trumpet sound
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'Cause if you ain't minin' for the company boy then there ain't much in this town.
Chorus:
Am
C
G
We coulda made somethin' of ourselves out there if we'd listened to the folks thatD
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knew
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That co------ooooo------oal's gonna bury you.
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Verse 2:
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G
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D
Now it's darker than a dungeon and it's deeper than a well
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So sometimes I imagine that I'm getting pretty close to hell.
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And in my darkest hour, I cry out to the lord.
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He says keep on 'a minin' boy cause that's why you were born.
Chorus:
Am
C
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We coulda made somethin' of ourselves out there if we'd listened to the folks thatD
D
knew
Am
C
G
D
D
That co------ooooo------oal's gonna bury you.
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