COAL MINER'S BLUES
(Lyr. trad., tune by Sara and Maybelle Carter.)

Some blues are just blues. Mine are the miner's blues. (2x)
My troubles are coming by threes and by twos.

Blues and more blues, it's the coal-black blues. (2x)
Got coal in my hair, got coal in my shoes.

These blues are soul blues. They are the coal-black blues. (2x)
For my place will cave in and my life I will lose.

You say they are blues, these old miner's blues. (2x)
Now I must have sharpened these picks that I use.

I'm out with these blues, dirty coal-black blues. (2x)
We'll lay off tomorrow with the coal miner's blues.
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As recorded by the Carter Family, Decca 5596, 1938.
@country JTD
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