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Coal — Michael Penn, from the album Free For All
Transcribed by Mike Lewis ([email protected])
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Capo 2
Intro: (Play four times)
G C(9) D
[—3-3-3—3-3—————2———]
[—3-3-3—3-3—————3———]
[—0-0-0—0-0———0-0-0-2———]
[—0-0-0—0-0——0—2-2-2-0—0—-0-]
[———0——0h2—-3-3-3——2′—]
[-3————————————]
Verse
G C9 G C9 G D
Who’d’ve ever thought to call that coal,
G C9 G C9 G D
If my hands were warm then I might, I don’t know,
A7 D7
I keep panning, but in my reach, it
C G C G
Hangs on, water falls down,
A A/G A/F# A/E
There’s no gold
C(9)
In this barren town.
(Play intro twice)
Verse 2
Used to be a man could make his way,
With a barrel full of this black coal,
Half certain you’d say,
But in my reach, it
Hangs on, water falls down,
There’s no gold,
In this barren town.
(Play intro twice)
G Am Em C Cmaj7 G D
[—————————————————-]
[————————————————-3—]
[—0—2—4—4b5b4—2—0———0—2—4—4—b5—b4—-]
[————————2-0-2————————]
[—————————————————-]
[—————————————————-]
Hang on that D for a bit, then:
[——————-]
[——————-]
[-2-2-0————-]
[——-4-2-0——-]
[————-3-2-0-]
[——————-]
Intro two more times, then the third verse:
Look at every angle and draw the square,
Find some nut you can instead untighten,
Watch me in the corner with a pair,
Under certain pressure ace, a diamond.
So run your fingers down my back,
You’d make such a cool distraction,
’cause in my reach it
Hangs on,
Yeah, the walls down,
But there’s no gold,
There’s a line drawn and crossed, by the banks.
By the way
Water falls down,
There’s no gold, in this barren town.
Intro twice, then repeat solo, ending on D.
