Loveless Patty - Never Leave Harlan Alive guitar tab

YOU'LL NEVER LEAVE HARLAN ALIVE

Recorded by Patty Loveless in the key of "Gm"

Performed in the Down From the Mountain concert series

Capo 3 and play in Em to accompany recorded music

(Verse I)

Em G D A

In the deep dark hills of Eastern Kentucky

Em G C

That's the place where I trace my blood-lines.

G/B C G A C

And it was there I read on a hillside gravestone

Em B7 Em Em

You'll never leave Harlan alive.

(Verse II)

Oh, my Grandfather Dave crossed the Cumberland Mountains

Where he took a pretty girl to be his bride.

He said "Won't you walk with me out of the mouth of this holler.

Or we'll never leave Harlan Alive."

(Chorus)

G C D G

Where the sun comes up, about ten in the morning

Em F C

And the sun goes down about three in the day

G C D G

And you fill your cup with whatever bitter brew your drinking

D/F# Em F Em

And you spend your life, just thinking of, how to get away.

(Verse III)

No one ever knew there was coal in them mountains

Until a man a man from the Northeast arrived.

With a hundred dollar bill he said I'll pay for your minerals

He never left Harlan alive.

(Verse IV)

Grandma sold out cheap and they moved out west of Conwell.

To a farm where the big Richland River winds

And I'll bet they danced in the ditch and they laughed and sang a little

song

Who said we'd never leave Harlan alive.

(Verse V)

But the times they got hard and tobacco wasn't selling

And Old Granddad knew what he'd do to survive.

He went and dug for Harlan coal and sent the money back to Grandma

But he never left Harlan alive.

(Chorus No. 2)

Where the sun comes up, about ten in the morning

And the sun goes down, about three in the day

And you fill your cup with whatever bitter brew your drinking

And you spend your life, digging coal, from the bottom of your grave.