Johnny Cash - Loading Coal guitar chord

LOADING COAL

Writer: M. Travis

Recorded: 2/15/60

Album: Ride This Train

Key: Bb / CAPO: 3rd / Play: G

INRTO: C G D G

VERSE:

G Em

My pappy said when I was seventeen

C G

You're six feet tall and you face is clean

G C G

And it don't look right for a boy that old

G Em

To not make a livin' loading coal

CHORUS:

Em G

Loading coal loading coal

G C G

I'm a double-first cousin to a dad-blamed mole

G C G

Never get rich for to save my soul

G Em D G

And forty-eleven years of loading coal loading coal

VERSE:

Ain't never got aquainted with a dollor bill

And I don't ever reckon that I ever will

A dollar ain't made for a fellow I'm told

That scoops up a livin' loading coal

REPEAT CHORUS

INSTRUMENTAL: G C G D G

VERSE:

I cussed everything in the mining camp

From my shovel and my pick to my carbide lamp

But I know just as well when I grow old

I'll still be a cussin' but loading coal

REPEAT CHORUS

INSTRUMENTAL: G C G D G

VERSE:

I know just as well as coal is black

One of these days the mines will strike

And I'll sit around starving til I'm finally told

There's a nickel more a ton for loading coal

REPEAT CHORUS

G

Loading coal, Loading coal, (fade.............)