Coal  by Tyler Childers
Key: EmEm | Capo: 0fr |  Left-Handed 

    


Verse 1
    Em                    G                  D                A       A(7)
Now God made coal for the men who sold their lives to West Van Lear
        Em                       G                         D                A
And you keep on diggin' 'til you get down there where it's darker than your darkest 
        A(7)
fear.
         Em                            G                       D                 A      A(7)
And that woman in the kitchen tries to keep on cookin' but she ain't had meat in years
     Em                 G                   D                 A        A(7)
Just live off bread and live off hope and a pool of a million tears.
          Em                           G               D                     A  A(7)
Now lemme tell you somethin' 'bout the Gospel and make sure that you mark it down
     Em                 G                          D                  A         A(7)
When God spoke out "Let there be light" he put the first of us in the ground.
          Em                       G                      D                 A       A(7)
And we'll keep on diggin' 'til the comin' of the lord and Gabriel's trumpet sound
          Em                       G                      D                  A       A(7)
'Cause if you ain't minin' for the company boy then there ain't much in this town.
Chorus
   Em                          G                        D                        
We coulda made somethin' of ourselves out there if we'd listened to the folks that 
A        A(7)
knew
     Em      G          D           A           A(7)
That co------ooooo------oal's gonna bury you.
Solo
Verse 2
         Em            G                D             A       A(7)
Now it's darker than a dungeon and it's deeper than a well
   Em           G               D                       A       A(7)
So sometimes I imagine that I'm getting pretty close to hell.
    Em            G       D              A       A(7)
And in my darkest hour, I cry out to the lord.
        Em         G                D                   A       A(7)
He says keep on 'a minin' boy cause that's why you were born.
Chorus
   Em                          G                        D                        
We coulda made somethin' of ourselves out there if we'd listened to the folks that 
A        A(7)
knew
     Em      G          D           A           A(7)
That co------ooooo------oal's gonna bury you.