Coal Miner’s Blues

Flatt and Scruggs

Written by A.P. Carter

Key of C · Chords: I IV V

Verse 1

C                                              C7
Some blues are just blues mine are the miner’s blues
     F                                         C
Some blues are just blues mine are the miner’s blues
   G7                                   C
My troubles are coming by threes and by twos

Verse 2

                                          C7
Blues and more blues it’s that coal black blues
F                                         C
Blues and more blues it’s that coal black blues
    G7                             C
Got coal in my hair got coal in my shoes

Verse 3

                                                C7
These blues are so blue they are the coal black blues
      F                                         C
These blues are so blue they are the coal black blues
       G7                                    C
For my place will cave in and my life I will lose

Verse 4

                                         C7
You say they are blues these old miner’s blues
    F                                    C
You say they are blues these old miner’s blues
      G7                                     C
Now I must have sharpened these picks that I use

Verse 5

                                          C7
I’m out with these blues dirty coal black blues
    F                                     C
I’m out with these blues dirty coal black blues
      G7                                     C
We’ll lay off tomorrow with the coal miner’s blues