A Cold Lump Of Coal - David Allan Coe Chords
Chords: G, C-G, D-G, C, D
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SPOKEN: This last song is a song that I wrote which is a song against capitol
punishment.
And I would like very much for that to be stated somewhere along the
way, that this
is a song against capitol punishment. I wrote this song for my
fahter who is
doin' life in Ohio State Penitenciary; he's been there for 23 years.
INTRO:
G C-G G D-G
G C G
There is a story the coal miners tell
D
In Hazzard Kentucky about a woman called Nell
C G
She came there from somewhere just her and a child
D G
And bought her a farm in the valley
G C G
Now rumor says she had a whole lot of money
D
That boy never would work a day in his life
G C G
And all of the miners, those old forty-niners
D G
Tried harder than ever to make Nell their wife
C D C G
But Nell was a lady content with the baby
D
She'd had a good man who was lost in the mine
G C G
At night she would listen for sounds of his hammer
D G
And look in the coal miners' faces for signs
G C G
For years people talked of the pretty young woman
D
The boy, long neglected, had turned to a man
G C G
Who walked thru the tunnels in search of his daddy
D G
And carried a cold lump of coal in his hand
C D C G
She called the boy David, a name from the Good Book
D
For she believed prayin' was good for the soul
G C G
She'd found him abandoned when he was a baby
D G
Clutched tight in his hand was a cold lump of coal
C G C G
Now the truth of the matter, she tried to keep secret
D
But small towns know more than a body should tell
G C G
And it wasn't long 'til the story was proven
D G
For someone had murded the lady called Nell
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