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Lydia by Karen Poston
Lydia
Tuning: E A D G B E
Key: C
[Verse]
C F Am G
Lydie lit a cigarette today,
C F Am G
Ancient fumbling fingers in her way
F Am G F
From a forty year old coffee cup she sipped a bit of gin,
Am G F
Closed her eyes and let the memories in.
C F Am G
She lives in the old place all alone,
C F Am G
Keeps in touch with neighbours by the phone,
F Am G F
Grows herbs on the graves of her firstborn and his father,
Am G F
And the coal trucks never bother her.
[Chorus]
C Am G F
Oh Lydie, let him go. the boy is gone,
Am G F
Her mother struggled as she tore him from her arms,
C Am G F
Oh Lydia, your tears are heaven's rain,
Am G F
But she never was the same.
[Verse]
C F Am G
A cotton dress and satin shoes,
C F Am G
Indian summer sun, dressed in amber hues,
F Am G F
Spending time with a coal miner's son,
Am G F
To an old time fiddle tune,
C F Am G
The months went by just like a breeze that year,
C F Am G
They wed in June, and by the fall the boy was here,
F Am G F
Word come down from big stone, there's a fire in the mine,
Am G F
And eleven men they couldn't find.
[Chorus]
C Am G F
Oh Lydie, let him go. the boy is gone,
Am G F
Her mother struggled as she tore him from her arms,
C Am G F
Oh Lydia, your tears are heaven's rain,
Am G F
But she never was the same.
[Solo]
C F Am G
C F Am G
F Am G F
Am G F
[Verse]
C F Am G
She watched them pull him from the hole,
C F Am G
The overalls he wore were blackened by the smoke,
F Am G F
Lydie twice had had this dream and twice it had come true.
Am G F
And when she saw his father's boots she knew.
[Chorus]
C Am G F
Oh Lydie, let him go. the boy is gone,
Am G F
Her mother struggled as she tore him from her arms,
C Am G F
Oh Lydia, your tears are heaven's rain,
Am G F
But she never was the same.
[Outro]
C F Am G
Lydie lit a cigarette today,
C F Am G
Ancient fumbling fingers in her way
F Am G F
From a forty year old coffee cup she sipped a bit of gin,
Am G F
Closed her eyes and let the memories in.
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