Cast Iron Filter - Harlan County, Usa guitar chord

Harlan County, USA

By Cast Iron Filter

Tabbed By Larry Mofle

rmofle@satx.rr.com

10/16/2004

D

In eastern Kentucky

D

In nineteen-thirty-eight

D

The miners tried to live their lives

G

The Harlan County way

D

They hadn't seen a single scrap of coal since '31

D

They'd gone on strike and wouldn't stop

G D

Until the fightin' was done

D

They did their best to organize

D

To please the NMU

D

And old Aunt Molly Jackson tried

G

To sing 'em what to do

D

But the people kept on fightin'

D

Though there wasn't no food around

D

Till the companies sent the gun thugs

G

And drove the strikers outta town

Chorus:

C A

We never thought it'd come to war but we were wise

C

And we were waitin' for the chance

G C

To get that company out our lives

D C G

But it won't be long 'til the bullets fly tonight

D C G

They might kill us all but they'll never break the strike

D C G C

And maybe one day we'll find a way in Harlan County USA

D C G

And we'll finally get back to workin' in the mines

Well, the citizens on Harlan

Moved on some thirty years

They gave in to save their families

Cause the money'd disappeared

They'd seen the murder of Jock Yablonski

By that bastard Mr. Boyle

After the Mannington Disaster

They wouldn't work under the soil

Chorus

Well, neither side would compromise

To save the other's skin

And Duke Power liked to bargain

With the lives of workin' men

So the shots rang out among the hills

When the gun thugs came their way

But the miners won in '75

For better work and better pay

Chorus