Last Train From Poor Valley

Written by Norman Blake

Key of D · Chords: I IV V vi

Verse 1

     D           A        G              D
Well it was good one time everything was mighty fine
    D            A          D
The coal tipples roared day and night
    D           A            G              D
But things they got slow for no reason that I know
        D          A    D
And ill winds they hove into sight

Verse 2

    D                A    G         D
The mines all closed down everybody laid around
      D           A             D
There wasn’t very much that you could do
       D        A                G                  D
Except stand in that line to get your ration script on time
    D             A      D
And woman I could see it killin’ you

Verse 3

        D                 A       D
Now the soft new snows of December
        Bm   G  D
Lightly fall my cabin ’round
        D               G
So that last train from Poor Valley
       D     G      A     G        D
Takin’ brown haired Becky Richmond bound

Verse 4

     D      A                G        D
It’s been a comin’ on I knew soon you would be gone
        D            A    D
Leavin’ crossed your mind every day
     D        A            G               D
Then you said to me things are bad at home you see
  D         A            D
I guess I’d better be on my way

Verse 5

  D                A   G                 D
I should blame you now but I never could somehow
  D                A               D
A miner’s wife you weren’t cut out to be
   D               A                 G                D
It wasn’t what you thought just some dreams Lord that you’d bought
         D              A            D
When you left your home and ran away with me