Chords for Dry Branch Fire Squad - Aragon Mill with intro
Tempo:
64.675 bpm
Chords used:
F
C
Bb
Am
G
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
[Am] [F] This song I didn't get it off the original writer
Got it off the probably the greatest
[N] singer of our time
Her name was Hazel Dickens, and she was a great
Hazel Dickens would rip your skin off when she sang and she could he could she could whip most of us, too
I got to record with her a few times and
having done so I
Tell us there's so many things a person could say about a great American like Hazel Dickens
but the thing it always stuck in my mind was
There came a time back in the 70s when the United Mine Workers
was taken over by a very corrupt man by the name of tough Tony Boyle and
What Tony Boyle did was he took the black lung funds of the union workers who?
Dug in the deep pit mines
He invested him in a couple of corrupt, Washington DC banks, and then he stole all the money
So that when I played with a band called Ralph Stanley and the Crensh Mountain Boys
We had a wonderful fiddler who had worked in the mines most of his life, and he had black lung disease and
He had paid into that
Fund all his life and his his black lung
Monthly payment because of Tony Boyle was six dollars a month
so
the miners tried to
protest this and
they were led by a man by the name of Joseph you Blonsky and
Tony Boyle hired three ministers
three ministers from churches in Kentucky
To go up to Western, Pennsylvania and kill Tony Boyle and his wife
I mean
Jockey Blonsky and his wife and and Joseph you Blonsky actually died at his bedside in the middle of the night
Trying to defend his family
with a shotgun and they were gunned down by these ministers and went back to Kentucky and
That's a different story, but what happened
What Tony Boyle accomplished by this?
was
He intimidated the miners so much that there was no more protest
And so what Hazel Dickens did because what she did was music
she wrote songs about this and she went down into the coal fields of West Virginia and Kentucky and old Virginia and
Had rallies saying it rallies to organize the miners again
and eventually Tony Boyle was thrown out of the Union was arrested sent to prison where he died [G] and
What this leading up to is I
Was one of the people she asked to go with her and playing some of these bands that I was terrified, you know
But I thought man if Hazel Dickens is this tough and she had to snot beat out of her several times
and she's just kept going back down there and
[Ab] I've always thought I love this song.
I'm proud somebody asked us to do it, but always think I
could never sing it like Hazel Dickens because
She really never sang a note or a word that it just [F] didn't tear your heart out and
So when she recorded this song
Always lose track of where I was headed.
I apologize when she recorded this song
She left one of the verses out and when it was over that was one of the sessions
I was on I want to try said Hazel
How come you left out a verse and she said I was into it so much
I forgot the words and so I said what I've since learned was a dumb question
I said, why don't you go back and do it again?
And she said I'm afraid I just couldn't do it as hard as I did it the first time
So this will be all three verses because I'm not fearing
I'm gonna do my best to sing it hard
at [C] [F] [Gm]
[F] [C] [Bb] [C] [F]
the
East end of town at the foot of the hill
[C] There's a chimney so tall that [Bb] says there's a
Gone [F] mill, but there's no smoke at all
Coming out of that stack [Am] cause the [C] mill has shut down
[Bb] And it ain't coming [F] back
and the only sound I hear
Is the cry of the wind
[C] As it blows through the town
[Bb] Weave and spin [F] weave and spin
There's [D]
[C] [Bb] [F]
no children at all
in the narrow empty street
[C] Since the looms have all gone.
[Bb] It's so quiet.
[F] I can't sleep
I'm too old
To change but I'm too young to die [C] and there's no place to go
for [Bb] my [F] woman and I
And the only sound I hear
Is the cry of the wind
[C] As it blows through the town [Bb] weave and [F] spin weave and spin
Since
[C] [Bb] [F]
[C] [Bb] [F]
the mill had shut down
Lord, it's all that I know
Tell [C] me what can I do?
[Bb] Tell me where [F] can I go?
And the only sound I hear
Is the cry of the wind
As [C] it blows through the town [Bb] weave and spin [F] weave and spin
And the only sound I hear is the cry Of
[Am] [F] [N]
[F]
Got it off the probably the greatest
[N] singer of our time
Her name was Hazel Dickens, and she was a great
Hazel Dickens would rip your skin off when she sang and she could he could she could whip most of us, too
I got to record with her a few times and
having done so I
Tell us there's so many things a person could say about a great American like Hazel Dickens
but the thing it always stuck in my mind was
There came a time back in the 70s when the United Mine Workers
was taken over by a very corrupt man by the name of tough Tony Boyle and
What Tony Boyle did was he took the black lung funds of the union workers who?
Dug in the deep pit mines
He invested him in a couple of corrupt, Washington DC banks, and then he stole all the money
So that when I played with a band called Ralph Stanley and the Crensh Mountain Boys
We had a wonderful fiddler who had worked in the mines most of his life, and he had black lung disease and
He had paid into that
Fund all his life and his his black lung
Monthly payment because of Tony Boyle was six dollars a month
so
the miners tried to
protest this and
they were led by a man by the name of Joseph you Blonsky and
Tony Boyle hired three ministers
three ministers from churches in Kentucky
To go up to Western, Pennsylvania and kill Tony Boyle and his wife
I mean
Jockey Blonsky and his wife and and Joseph you Blonsky actually died at his bedside in the middle of the night
Trying to defend his family
with a shotgun and they were gunned down by these ministers and went back to Kentucky and
That's a different story, but what happened
What Tony Boyle accomplished by this?
was
He intimidated the miners so much that there was no more protest
And so what Hazel Dickens did because what she did was music
she wrote songs about this and she went down into the coal fields of West Virginia and Kentucky and old Virginia and
Had rallies saying it rallies to organize the miners again
and eventually Tony Boyle was thrown out of the Union was arrested sent to prison where he died [G] and
What this leading up to is I
Was one of the people she asked to go with her and playing some of these bands that I was terrified, you know
But I thought man if Hazel Dickens is this tough and she had to snot beat out of her several times
and she's just kept going back down there and
[Ab] I've always thought I love this song.
I'm proud somebody asked us to do it, but always think I
could never sing it like Hazel Dickens because
She really never sang a note or a word that it just [F] didn't tear your heart out and
So when she recorded this song
Always lose track of where I was headed.
I apologize when she recorded this song
She left one of the verses out and when it was over that was one of the sessions
I was on I want to try said Hazel
How come you left out a verse and she said I was into it so much
I forgot the words and so I said what I've since learned was a dumb question
I said, why don't you go back and do it again?
And she said I'm afraid I just couldn't do it as hard as I did it the first time
So this will be all three verses because I'm not fearing
I'm gonna do my best to sing it hard
at [C] [F] [Gm]
[F] [C] [Bb] [C] [F]
the
East end of town at the foot of the hill
[C] There's a chimney so tall that [Bb] says there's a
Gone [F] mill, but there's no smoke at all
Coming out of that stack [Am] cause the [C] mill has shut down
[Bb] And it ain't coming [F] back
and the only sound I hear
Is the cry of the wind
[C] As it blows through the town
[Bb] Weave and spin [F] weave and spin
There's [D]
[C] [Bb] [F]
no children at all
in the narrow empty street
[C] Since the looms have all gone.
[Bb] It's so quiet.
[F] I can't sleep
I'm too old
To change but I'm too young to die [C] and there's no place to go
for [Bb] my [F] woman and I
And the only sound I hear
Is the cry of the wind
[C] As it blows through the town [Bb] weave and [F] spin weave and spin
Since
[C] [Bb] [F]
[C] [Bb] [F]
the mill had shut down
Lord, it's all that I know
Tell [C] me what can I do?
[Bb] Tell me where [F] can I go?
And the only sound I hear
Is the cry of the wind
As [C] it blows through the town [Bb] weave and spin [F] weave and spin
And the only sound I hear is the cry Of
[Am] [F] [N]
[F]
Key:
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Bb
[Am] _ [F] This song I didn't get it off the original writer
Got it off the probably the greatest
[N] singer of our time
Her name was Hazel Dickens, and she was a great
Hazel Dickens would rip your skin off when she sang and she could he could she could whip most of us, too
I got to record with her a few times and
having done so I
Tell us there's so many things a person could say about a great American like Hazel Dickens
but the thing it always stuck in my mind was
There came a time back in the 70s when the United Mine Workers
was taken over by a very corrupt man by the name of tough Tony Boyle and
What Tony Boyle did was he took the black lung funds of the union workers who?
Dug in the deep pit mines
He invested him in a couple of corrupt, Washington DC banks, and then he stole all the money
So that when I played with a band called Ralph Stanley and the Crensh Mountain Boys
We had a wonderful fiddler who had worked in the mines most of his life, and he had black lung disease and
He had paid into that
Fund all his life and his his black lung
Monthly payment because of Tony Boyle was six dollars a month
so
the miners tried to
protest this and
they were led by a man by the name of Joseph you Blonsky and
Tony Boyle hired three ministers
three ministers from churches in Kentucky
To go up to Western, Pennsylvania and kill Tony Boyle and his wife
I mean
Jockey Blonsky and his wife and and Joseph you Blonsky actually died at his bedside in the middle of the night
_ Trying to defend his family
with a shotgun and they were gunned down by these ministers and went back to Kentucky and
That's a different story, but what happened
What Tony Boyle accomplished by this?
was
_ _ He intimidated the miners so much that there was no more protest
And so what Hazel Dickens did because what she did was music
she wrote songs about this and she went down into the coal fields of West Virginia and Kentucky and old Virginia and
Had rallies saying it rallies to organize the miners again
and eventually Tony Boyle was thrown out of the Union was arrested sent to prison where he died [G] and
What this leading up to is I
Was one of the people she asked to go with her and playing some of these bands that I was terrified, you know
But I thought man if Hazel Dickens is this tough and she had to snot beat out of her several times
and she's just kept going back down there and
[Ab] I've always thought I love this song.
I'm proud somebody asked us to do it, but always think I
could never sing it like Hazel Dickens because
She really never sang a note or a word that it just [F] didn't tear your heart out and
So when she recorded this song
Always lose track of where I was headed.
I apologize when she recorded this song
She left one of the verses out and when it was over that was one of the sessions
I was on I want to try said Hazel
How come you left out a verse and she said I was into it so much
I forgot the words and so I said what I've since learned was a dumb question
I said, why don't you go back and do it again?
And she said I'm afraid I just couldn't do it as hard as I did it the first time
So this will be all three verses because I'm not fearing
I'm gonna do my best to sing it hard
at _ [C] _ [F] _ [Gm] _
[F] _ [C] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ [C] _ [F] _
_ the
East end of town at the foot of the hill
[C] There's a chimney so tall that [Bb] says there's a
Gone [F] mill, but there's no smoke at all
Coming out of that stack [Am] cause the [C] mill has shut down
[Bb] And it ain't coming [F] back
and the only sound I hear
Is the cry of the wind
[C] As it blows through the town
[Bb] Weave and spin [F] weave and spin
There's _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _
[C] _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ [F] _ _
no children at all
in the narrow empty street
[C] Since the looms have all gone.
[Bb] It's so quiet.
[F] I can't sleep _
I'm too old
To change but I'm too young to die [C] and there's no place to go
for [Bb] my [F] woman and I _
And the only sound I hear
Is the cry of the wind
[C] As it blows through the town [Bb] weave and [F] spin weave and spin
Since _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ [F] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ [F] _ _
the mill had shut down
Lord, it's all that I know
Tell [C] me what can I do?
[Bb] Tell me where [F] can I go?
And the only sound I hear
Is the cry of the wind
As [C] it blows through the town [Bb] weave and spin [F] weave and spin
And the only sound I hear is the _ cry Of
_ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ [N] _ _ _ _
_ [F] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Got it off the probably the greatest
[N] singer of our time
Her name was Hazel Dickens, and she was a great
Hazel Dickens would rip your skin off when she sang and she could he could she could whip most of us, too
I got to record with her a few times and
having done so I
Tell us there's so many things a person could say about a great American like Hazel Dickens
but the thing it always stuck in my mind was
There came a time back in the 70s when the United Mine Workers
was taken over by a very corrupt man by the name of tough Tony Boyle and
What Tony Boyle did was he took the black lung funds of the union workers who?
Dug in the deep pit mines
He invested him in a couple of corrupt, Washington DC banks, and then he stole all the money
So that when I played with a band called Ralph Stanley and the Crensh Mountain Boys
We had a wonderful fiddler who had worked in the mines most of his life, and he had black lung disease and
He had paid into that
Fund all his life and his his black lung
Monthly payment because of Tony Boyle was six dollars a month
so
the miners tried to
protest this and
they were led by a man by the name of Joseph you Blonsky and
Tony Boyle hired three ministers
three ministers from churches in Kentucky
To go up to Western, Pennsylvania and kill Tony Boyle and his wife
I mean
Jockey Blonsky and his wife and and Joseph you Blonsky actually died at his bedside in the middle of the night
_ Trying to defend his family
with a shotgun and they were gunned down by these ministers and went back to Kentucky and
That's a different story, but what happened
What Tony Boyle accomplished by this?
was
_ _ He intimidated the miners so much that there was no more protest
And so what Hazel Dickens did because what she did was music
she wrote songs about this and she went down into the coal fields of West Virginia and Kentucky and old Virginia and
Had rallies saying it rallies to organize the miners again
and eventually Tony Boyle was thrown out of the Union was arrested sent to prison where he died [G] and
What this leading up to is I
Was one of the people she asked to go with her and playing some of these bands that I was terrified, you know
But I thought man if Hazel Dickens is this tough and she had to snot beat out of her several times
and she's just kept going back down there and
[Ab] I've always thought I love this song.
I'm proud somebody asked us to do it, but always think I
could never sing it like Hazel Dickens because
She really never sang a note or a word that it just [F] didn't tear your heart out and
So when she recorded this song
Always lose track of where I was headed.
I apologize when she recorded this song
She left one of the verses out and when it was over that was one of the sessions
I was on I want to try said Hazel
How come you left out a verse and she said I was into it so much
I forgot the words and so I said what I've since learned was a dumb question
I said, why don't you go back and do it again?
And she said I'm afraid I just couldn't do it as hard as I did it the first time
So this will be all three verses because I'm not fearing
I'm gonna do my best to sing it hard
at _ [C] _ [F] _ [Gm] _
[F] _ [C] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ [C] _ [F] _
_ the
East end of town at the foot of the hill
[C] There's a chimney so tall that [Bb] says there's a
Gone [F] mill, but there's no smoke at all
Coming out of that stack [Am] cause the [C] mill has shut down
[Bb] And it ain't coming [F] back
and the only sound I hear
Is the cry of the wind
[C] As it blows through the town
[Bb] Weave and spin [F] weave and spin
There's _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _
[C] _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ [F] _ _
no children at all
in the narrow empty street
[C] Since the looms have all gone.
[Bb] It's so quiet.
[F] I can't sleep _
I'm too old
To change but I'm too young to die [C] and there's no place to go
for [Bb] my [F] woman and I _
And the only sound I hear
Is the cry of the wind
[C] As it blows through the town [Bb] weave and [F] spin weave and spin
Since _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ [F] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ [F] _ _
the mill had shut down
Lord, it's all that I know
Tell [C] me what can I do?
[Bb] Tell me where [F] can I go?
And the only sound I hear
Is the cry of the wind
As [C] it blows through the town [Bb] weave and spin [F] weave and spin
And the only sound I hear is the _ cry Of
_ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ [N] _ _ _ _
_ [F] _ _ _ _ _ _ _