[Intro]
Em G D A A7 x2
[Strophe]
    Em                    G                  D                A       A7 
Now God made coal for the men who sold their lives to West Van Lear 
        Em                       G                         D                A 
And you keep on diggin' 'til you get down there where it's darker than your darkest  
        A7 
fear.  
         Em                       G                        D                 A      A7 
And that woman in the kitchen she keeps on cookin' but she ain't had meat in years 
     Em                 G                   D                 A        A7 
Just live off bread and live off hope and a pool of a million tears.  
          Em                           G               D                     A  A7 
Now lemme tell you somethin' 'bout the Gospel and make sure that you mark it down 
     Em                 G                          D                  A         A7 
When God spoke out "Let there be light" he put the first of us in the ground.  
          Em                       G                      D                 A       A7 
And we'll keep on diggin' 'til the comin' of the lord and Gabriel's trumpet sound 
          Em                       G                      D                  A       A7 
'Cause if you ain't minin' for the company boy then there ain't much in this town.
[Refrain]
   Em                          G                        D 
We coulda made somethin' of ourselves out there if we'd listened to the folks that  
A        A7 
knew 
     Em      G          D           A           A7 
That co------ooooo------oal's gonna bury you.
[Solo]
[Strophe]
         Em            G                D             A       A7 
Now it's darker than a dungeon and it's deeper than a well 
   Em           G               D                       A       A7 
So sometimes I imagine that I'm getting pretty close to hell. 
    Em            G       D              A       A7 
And in my darkest hour, I cry out to the lord. 
        Em         G                D                   A       A7 
He says keep on 'a minin' boy cause that's why you were born.
[Refrain]
   Em                          G                        D 
We coulda made somethin' of ourselves out there if we'd listened to the folks that  
A        A7 
knew 
     Em      G          D           A           A7 
That co------ooooo------oal's gonna bury you.
[Solo]