Black Lung Chords & Lyrics - The Dead South

[VERSE]
[Em]Basically we are all alone in the centre of a pickaxe [G]mine
[Em]Black lung stings as the pickaxe swings
[Em]As the void of the mine closes in
[Em]The Devil Came and the Angels sang
[Em]A Song of the Holy [E]Ghost
[Em]Tempted the soul from the pennies to the gold
[Em]Like the dust I spit from my mouth

[CHORUS]
[Em]Wooo oooo ooo o o o o[G] o o o o o o o o [Em]o o

[VERSE]
[Em]Remember the night with the barroom fight
[Em]Where I killed all of my best f[E]riends
[Em]We gambled it away with the whiskey open keg
[Em]And we never saw it again
[Em]Well I had a wife that I met back in High school
[Em]Her name was Lyla-J[G]ean
[Em]We saved away to escape some place
[Em]On a local miner's minor pay

[CHORUS]
[Em]Whooo oooo ooo o o o o o o o o o o o o o o

[VERSE]
[Em]We saved so long the fall came and gone
[Em]At Least 27 [G]times
[Em]It fell through the floorboards into deep dark darkness
[Em]And we never saw it again
[Em]West Virginia's home and that's where we're staying
[Em]To the blade of the bible [G]hymn
[Em]Jesus says we're wicked so we just keep on pickin'
[Em]At the scab of the open mine [A]

[CHORUS]
[Em]Whooo oooo ooo o [G]o o o o o o o o[Em] o o o o o[E]