Chords for The Folksmen - Blood on the Coals (MadTV)

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_ Ladies and gentlemen, [Gb] please welcome the Folksman.
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_ _ _ [B] Thank you.
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_ [Bbm] _ _ _ Nice to be back. _
[B] _ _ _ _ [F] Thank you very much.
It's lovely [A] to be back in [Abm] Hollywood. _ _
[B] Holly weird.
_ _ _ It's a strange place. [Gb] Yeah.
_ As [Bb] most of you [Bm] know, folk music [Bb] is based around some very tragic stories.
_ _ Death of a [C] loved one, for example, train wreck, _ mining disaster, three of the more popular. _ _
Tragic.
Of course, we live in fast moving times.
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We don't have the luxury of [Gb] hearing one song about [Bb] each of these disasters.
So the song we're going to perform for you tonight combines the three [Ebm] into one fast moving diddy.
[Gb] _ _ _ [E] To heighten the tragedy.
We hope you enjoy it.
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_ _ _ It was April _ [C] 27th in the year of ninety one.
About [A] a mile below the surface [D] and the warm Kentucky sun.
The late shift was ending [C] and the early shift was late.
[A] And the foreman ate his dinner [D] from a dirty tin plate.
But all the [C] tracks, blood in the mine.
[Am] Brothers and sisters, [D] what a terrible time.
Till 97 went in the [C] wrong hole.
[Am] Now in mine number 60, [Dm] there's blood on the coal.
Blood on the coal.
Blood on the coal.
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_ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ [D] The slag pits were steaming, it [C] was 725.
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Every miner worked a coal face, [D] every one of them alive.
Train came round the corner, you [C] could hear that trestle groan.
[Am] But the switcher wasn't listening, so he left [D] the switch alone.
Blood on the [C] tracks, blood in the mine.
[Am]
Brothers and sisters, [D] what a terrible time.
Till _ 97 [C] went in the wrong hole.
[Am] Now in mine number 60, [D] there's blood on the coal.
Blood on the [Dm] coal.
Blood on the coal.
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_ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ [D] Oh, the walls began to tremble and [C] the men began to yell.
You could [Am] hear that lonesome whistle [D] like an echo out of a well. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ They dropped their picks and shovels as [C] to safety they did run.
For to stay [Am] amongst the living in [D] the year of 91.
Blood on the [C] tracks, blood in the mine.
[Am]
Brothers and sisters, what a [D] terrible time.
Till 97 went [C] in the wrong hole.
[Am] Now in mine number 60, there's [Dm] blood on the coal.
Blood on the coal.
Blood on the [C] coal.
_ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ [D] Now an Irishman named Murphy [C] said, I'll stop that iron horse.
As he stood at [Am] Thwart, his passage [D] had crushed him dead of course.
And I hope he hears the irony [C] whene'er this tale is told.
[Am] The trade that took his life was [D] burning good Kentucky coal.
Blood on the [C] tracks, blood in the mine.
Brothers [Am] and sisters, what a [D] terrible time.
Till 97 got [C] in the wrong hole.
[Am] Now in mine number 60, [D] there's blood on the coal.
[Dm] Blood on the coal.
_ Blood on the coal.
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_ _ [Gb] Thank you.
Thank you so [Bb] much.
_ Blood on the coal.
[Bbm] _ _ Don't let it happen to you. _ _ _ _ _ _