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God Bless The Union And Damn Diane Sawyer by Jesse & the Revelator
God Bless The Union And Damn Diane Sawyer
Tuning:E A D G B E
Capo:3rd fret
[Intro]
C
[Verse]
Am C
What do you want me to say?
Am G C
I don’t know any other way.
Am G C
And you talk about conditions and getting union recognition
Am C
and then you just drive away.
Am C
But I have to live here you know.
Am G C
I can’t be no better than these folks.
Am C G C
Cause if you’re better your alone and Boyle killed Jock in his home.
Am C
They say your outfit’s a joke.
[Chorus]
Am C G C
And of course I know we deserve that higher wage.
Am C G C
And of course i can imagine ridding’ in that safer cage.
Am C E7 Am
If I could tell the truth I’d say I’d just plain old afraid
C Am G C
to bite the hand the sees every Friday that I pay.
[Verse]
Am C
But truth’s a luxury you know.
Am G C
And the price is hanging your head low.
Am C G C
So I won’t take home your pamphlet, I’ll act proud and tell you damn it.
Am C
We’re just fine here, you can go.
Am C
But now they’ve changed the tides.
Am G C
Heard what that boy caught in his side.
Am C G C
And if for more vacation days, a Lawerence Jones is what we trade
Am C
his wife would keep him every time.
[Chorus]
Am C G C
And I been checking on her thirty years and thirty days.
Am C G C
From the strikes in our home county to the flood up Kingston way.
Am C E7 Am
The picket lines and the fly ash and the mountains in-between
Am C G C
It’s hard to give a darn when the kids are still as lean.
[Verse]
Am C
So what do you want me to say?
Am G C
I know there’s acid in the rain.
Am C G C
But they closed the school in Evarts and my wife barely got her severance.
Am G
And up north they all just frack for veins.
Am C
The lobby tells us to believe
Am G C
the coal today is burning clean.
Am C G C
And though my grandson will be coughing from his carriage to his coffin
Am C
the lie will keep him in some green.
[Chorus]
Am C G C
And I don’t know what to think of all of this.
Am C G C
I’m five years from retiring a foreman on my shift.
Am C E7 Am
And the hand that’s kept me on I know soon will cut me down.
Am C G C
When the sulfur in my heart wants to take me to the ground.
[Chorus]
Am C G C
And of course I know the sun is such a better way.
Am C G C
Those panels leave the mountains be if you ask me that’s okay.
Am C E7 Am
But this ain’t me admitting that my 40 years of mining
C Am G C
are the reason all the people like to say the earth is dying.
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