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From: Ugo Piomelli :Chorus}
I was bo[D]rn and raised at the mouth of the Hazard Ho[Em]ller
Where the co[D]al carts rolled and rumbled past my d[Em]oor
But now they stand in a ru[D]sty row of all em[Em]pties
Because the L[C]&N don t st[D]op here an[Em]ymore
I used to think my father was a black man
With scrip enough to buy the company store
But now he goes to town with empty pockets
And his face is as white as the February snow
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Never thought I d live to lean to love the coaldust
Never thought I d pray to hear those temples roar
But God I wish the grass would turn to money
And then them greenbacks would fill my pockets once more
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Last night I dreamed I went down to the office
To get my payday like I done before
But them old kudzu vines was covering the doorway
And there was leaves and grass growing up through the floor
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# Submitted to the ftp.nevada.edu:/pub/guitar archives
# by Ugo Piomelli
# 7 November 1992
