Verse 1
Dm                                Am 
In a northern land we call god’s country 
            G              Dm 
In a valley wide his works abound 
    Dm                      Am 
And god on high surveys his bounty 
               G                  Dm 
Each glorious sight each wondrous sound 
         C                  G 
But down below there’s dark temptation 
          Am                Dm 
An age of tears waits to be found 
            C            G 
Ten million years in its creation 
            Am                  Dm 
Now there’s coal in the devil’s ground 
 
Verse 2
Dm                          Am 
So helpless men are sent to plunder 
                G             Dm 
There desperate needs here to fulfil 
      Dm                     Am 
And a northern land is wrent asunder 
             G                        Dm 
But there’ll be grist for the devil’s mill 
         C               G 
For down below his congregation 
            Am                 Dm 
Swells with those who ventured down 
        C            G 
When he bestowed his invitation 
              Am                   Dm 
To lose their souls in the devil’s ground 
 
Verse 3
Dm                             Am 
Two hundred years and now it’s ended 
        G                    Dm 
And god regains his northern crown 
     Dm                          Am 
This pitted land it’s scars soon mended 
            G                    Dm 
Ten million years till next time round 
         C                  G 
But down below ten thousand miners 
         Am                     Dm 
Of their flesh he’s claimed his pound 
          C                       G 
Long will they lay in the devil’s darkness 
               Am                  Dm 
And they’ll be coal in the devil’s ground