Coal miner’s blues
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1. Some blues are just blues, mine are the
miner's blues,
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some blues are just blues, mine are the miner's blues.
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My troubles are coming by
threes and by twos.
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2. Blues and more blues, it's the coal black blues,
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blues and more blues, it's the
coal black blues.
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Got coal in
my hair, got coal in my shoes.
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3. These blues are so blue, they are the coal
black blues,
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these blues are so blue, they are the coal black blues.
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For my place
will cave in, and my life I will lose.
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4. You say they are blues, these old miner's blues,
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you say they are blues, these
old miner's blues.
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Now I must have sharpened
these picks that I use.
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5. I'm out with these blues, dirty coal black blues,
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I'm out with these blues,
dirty coal black blues.
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We'll lay off tomorrow with
the coal miner's blues.
(capo 3rd)
(The Carter Family)