Chords for Johnnie Taylor ~ You Can't Strike Gold In A Silver Mine

_ _ _ _ _ _ No, [F] no, no, no.
_ Whoa, _ [C] whoa.
You taste like gold.
No. _ _
[F] In a silver mine.
_ Yeah, yeah, yeah, [C] yeah.
You taste like gold.
You taste like gold.
No, no.
[F] In a silver mine.
Let me tell a story.
[C] _ I met a beautiful woman. _
[F] And I thought I saw gold. _
[C] I fell deeply in love with her.
_ With my [F] heart, mind, body, and soul. _ _
[C] Then I saw her kissing some other guy. _ _
[F] And that really messed with my head. _ _
[C] My old man sat me down and told me something. _ _
[F] _ And this is what he said.
He said, [C] son, you taste like gold.
No. _ _
[F] In a silver mine.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, [C] whoa.
You taste like gold.
You taste like gold, boy.
[F] In a silver mine.
Yeah, yeah. _
[C] I know my old man meant well, y'all. _ _
[F] But it went in one ear and out the other. _ _
[C] I just had to get back to her again.
Now she [F] was all hooked up with another. _ _
[C] I guess I'll chalk this one up, yeah.
I just [F] made a bad, bad choice.
[C] Oh, my heart was really hurting, y'all.
And I can [F] still hear my daddy's voice when he said,
[C] you _ _ can't strike gold from [F] a silver mine.
You just can't do it, boy.
No, [C] you can't strike gold _ _ _ [F] from a silver mine.
In a silver mine, yeah. _
[Em] I thought she was one in a million _ [F] the way she laid her loving on me. _
[Em] Yeah.
But it's the sweet thing never seen.
[F] But her beauty was only [G] skin deep. _ _
[C] You can't strike gold.
Let me tell you one more time.
[F] In a silver mine.
I got to make this point, D.
You [C] can't strike gold.
No, no, no, no.
[F] In a silver mine.
I thought I struck gold, y'all.
Thought I [C] had everything.
You can't strike gold.
Everything I wanted, I didn't have a dog on [F] me.
In a silver mine.
Had a pretty little thing, but it was [C] a disease.
You can't strike gold.
No, no, no, no.
You can't [F] strike gold.
In a silver mine.
Everything that is sure [C] ain't gold.
You can't strike gold.
Everything that's sure, sure [F] ain't mine.
In a silver mine.
Let me tell you, yeah.
You [C] can't get risky.
_ _ In a silver mine.
I'm a [F] man of wine.
In a silver mine.
Yeah.
You can't, you can't, you [C] can't.
You can't strike gold.
No, _ no, [F] no.
In a silver mine.
Oh, let me tell you, fellas.
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