Lawrence Jones(Chords)

	        
Intro: Am7 Am     Am7 Am 


Well, the night is as thick as silence 
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You can't cut it with a knife 

A man lies in the hospital 
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Draining out his life 

The trucks are on the back road 
       C        G          Am 
In the dark the headlights shine 

'Cause there's one man dead 
        C      G      Am 
On that Harlan County line 



Oh, anger, like poison 
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Is eating at your soul 

Your thoughts are loud as gunfire 
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Your face as hard as coal 

Bitterness, like buckshot 
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Explodes inside your mind 

And there's one man dead 
        C      G      Am      Am7 Am 
On that Harlan County line 



Oh, a miner's life is fragile 
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It could shatter just like ice 

But those who bear the struggle 
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Have always paid the price 

There's blood upon the contract 
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Like vinegar in wine 

And there's one man dead 
        C      G      Am      Am7 Am 
On that Harlan County line 



From the river bridge at Highsplint 
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To the Brookside railroad track 

You can feel the long strake building 
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That can never be turned back 

The dead go forward with us 
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Not one is left behind 

'Cause there's one man dead 
        C      G      Am   
On that Harlan County line 



Well, the night is as cold as iron 
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You can feel it in your bones 

It settles like a shroud upon 
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The grave of Lawrence Jones 

The graveyard shift is walking 
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From the bathhouse into the mine 

And there's one man dead 
        C      G      Am   
On that Harlan County line 

One man dead 
        C      G      Am   
On that Harlan County line 

One miner dead 
        C      G      Am   
On that Harlan County line