The Dead South - Black lung

^EmBasically we are all alone in the centre of a pickaxe ^Gmine ^EmBlack lung stings as the pickaxe swings ^EmAs the void of the mine closes in ^EmThe Devil Came and the Angels sang ^EmA Song of the Holy ^EGhost ^EmTempted the soul from the pennies to the gold ^EmLike the dust I spit from my mouth

^EmWooo oooo ooo o o o o^G o o o o o o o o ^Emo o [Verse] ^EmRemember the night with the barroom fight ^EmWhere I killed all of my best f^Eriends ^EmWe gambled it away with the whiskey open keg ^EmAnd we never saw it again ^EmWell I had a wife that I met back in High school ^EmHer name was Lyla-J^Gean ^EmWe saved away to escape some place ^EmOn a local miner's minor pay

^EmWhooo oooo ooo o o o o o o o o o o o o o o [Verse] ^EmWe saved so long the fall came and gone ^EmAt Least 27 ^Gtimes ^EmIt fell through the floorboards into deep dark darkness ^EmAnd we never saw it again ^EmWest Virginia's home and that's where we're staying ^EmTo the blade of the bible ^Ghymn ^EmJesus says we're wicked so we just keep on pickin' ^EmAt the scab of the open mine ^A

^EmWhooo oooo ooo o ^Go o o o o o o o^Em o o o o o^E