Loading Coal Chords & Lyrics - Johnny Cash

CAPO: 3rd / Play: G

INRTO: [C] [G] [D] [G]

[VERSE]
[G]My pappy said when I was [Em]seventeen
[C]You're six feet tall and you [G]face is clean
[G]And it don't look right for a [C]boy that [G]old
[G]To not make a livin' [Em]loading coal

[CHORUS]
[Em]Loading [G]coal loading coal
[G]I'm a [C]double-first cousin to a [G]dad-blamed mole
[G]Never get rich for to [C]save my [G]soul
[G]And forty-eleven years of [Em]loading coal [D]loading [G]coal

[VERSE]
[G]Ain't never got aquainted with a [Em]dollor bill
[C]And I don't ever reckon [G]that I ever will
[G]A dollar ain't made for a [C]fellow I'm [G]told
[G]That scoops up a livin' [Em]loading coal

REPEAT CHORUS

INSTRUMENTAL: [G] [C] [G] [D] [G]

[VERSE]
[G]I cussed everything in the [Em]mining camp
[C]From my shovel and my pick to my [G]carbide lamp
[G]But I know just as well [C]when I grow [G]old
[G]I'll still be a cussin' but [Em]loading coal

REPEAT CHORUS

INSTRUMENTAL: [G] [C] [G] [D] [G]

[VERSE]
[G]I know just as well as [Em]coal is Black
[C]One of these days the [G]mines will strike
[G]And I'll sit around starving til [C]I'm finally [G]told
[G]There's a nickel more a ton for [Em]loading coal

REPEAT CHORUS
[G]Loading coal, Loading coal, (fade.....)