Four years of hard work!This month of May we celebrated four years on the air. We continue working on the dissemination of this wonderful instrument, thank you for participating in our story!
[Intro]
C G F C
C G F C
C G F C
F C G G
[Verse 1]
C G F C
I went to the funeral of my old man today
C G F C
The urn that he came home in was a charcoal shade of grey
C G F C
He wanted his ashes spread across the prairies of the USA
C G
'Cause he loved John Wayne, the American dream but he
F C
never made it out that way
C G
Spent his whole damn life working for the man at the
F C
power plant driving coal
C G
He shoveled that shit from a mountain high and that
F C
mountain broke his soul
[Bridge]
F C
He was driving coal when I was born
C F C
And he drove it until he was gone
C F
and the only time he hit me was when I asked him
F G Am
for a job - driving coal
[Chorus]
F G Am F
And that coal mountain blocks the sun from my window
F G Am
Standing in the horizon so stern and strong
F G Am F
The coal mountain, within five miles of it nothing grows
F G Am
I've lived in the shadow of that mountain all my life
G
All my life
[Verse 2]
C G F C
Now the service it was simple just the kind he would have liked
C G
And Mama wept as she read those words about
F C
the dying of the light
C G
That same night the snow came down and for
F C
a moment it was all white
C G
But the ash in the air turns everything here
F C
grey like that mountainside
[Bridge]
F C
And when we got to who gets what
F C
It sure turned ugly enough
F G
One grey morning Mama left the house in her robe
Am
- and she never came home
[Chorus]
F G Am F
And that coal mountain blocks the sun from my window
F G Am
Standing in the horizon so stern and strong
F G Am F
The coal mountain, within five miles of it nothing grows
F G Am
I've lived in the shadow of that mountain all my life
G
All my life
[Solo]
C G F C
C G F C
[Verse 3]
C G F C
His ashes never made it to prairies of the USA
C G F C
Visas are a nightmare and getting harder every day
[Bridge]
F C
Instead I went in the dead of night
F C
Buried the urn in the mountain side
F
Said: "Here it stops", poured some whiskey on top
G Am
and left them both - I left them both behind
[Chorus]
F G Am F
And the coal mountain blocks the moonlight from the road
F G Am
Disappearing in the horizon as I go
F G Am F
The coal mountain, within five miles of it nothing grows
F G Am
I won't live in its shadow for a moment more
F G C
I won't live in its shadow for a moment more
C G F C
C G F C
C G F C
F C G G
[Verse 1]
C G F C
I went to the funeral of my old man today
C G F C
The urn that he came home in was a charcoal shade of grey
C G F C
He wanted his ashes spread across the prairies of the USA
C G
'Cause he loved John Wayne, the American dream but he
F C
never made it out that way
C G
Spent his whole damn life working for the man at the
F C
power plant driving coal
C G
He shoveled that shit from a mountain high and that
F C
mountain broke his soul
[Bridge]
F C
He was driving coal when I was born
C F C
And he drove it until he was gone
C F
and the only time he hit me was when I asked him
F G Am
for a job - driving coal
[Chorus]
F G Am F
And that coal mountain blocks the sun from my window
F G Am
Standing in the horizon so stern and strong
F G Am F
The coal mountain, within five miles of it nothing grows
F G Am
I've lived in the shadow of that mountain all my life
G
All my life
[Verse 2]
C G F C
Now the service it was simple just the kind he would have liked
C G
And Mama wept as she read those words about
F C
the dying of the light
C G
That same night the snow came down and for
F C
a moment it was all white
C G
But the ash in the air turns everything here
F C
grey like that mountainside
[Bridge]
F C
And when we got to who gets what
F C
It sure turned ugly enough
F G
One grey morning Mama left the house in her robe
Am
- and she never came home
[Chorus]
F G Am F
And that coal mountain blocks the sun from my window
F G Am
Standing in the horizon so stern and strong
F G Am F
The coal mountain, within five miles of it nothing grows
F G Am
I've lived in the shadow of that mountain all my life
G
All my life
[Solo]
C G F C
C G F C
[Verse 3]
C G F C
His ashes never made it to prairies of the USA
C G F C
Visas are a nightmare and getting harder every day
[Bridge]
F C
Instead I went in the dead of night
F C
Buried the urn in the mountain side
F
Said: "Here it stops", poured some whiskey on top
G Am
and left them both - I left them both behind
[Chorus]
F G Am F
And the coal mountain blocks the moonlight from the road
F G Am
Disappearing in the horizon as I go
F G Am F
The coal mountain, within five miles of it nothing grows
F G Am
I won't live in its shadow for a moment more
F G C
I won't live in its shadow for a moment more
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