Come All You Gallant Colliers Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
Now [D]come [Em]all you g[D]allant colliers
wherever you may be
Whether you work the Rhondda
or in the North [G]Country
[F#m]All yo[D]u who tunnel in the rock and dirt
to [F#m]earn your pay[Gm][G]
[D]They [F#m]say yo[Em]ur ti[D]me is almost done
And that coal has had its day
We [Em]fuelled [D]the ships upon
the sea
And the railways on the land
And a [F#m]hundred thousand factories
[D]Grew up on [F#m]every hand
[D]We gave the [F#m]fire that forged
[D]the steel
from which the tools were [G]made.[F#m]
[D]And the wor[Em]ld we liv[F#m]e in,
it was [D]built upon the miners' trade.
We tunneled under [F#m]mountains
and [D]beneath the salt sea waves.
The slagheaps marked our victories,
the rockfalls marked our [G]graves.
[D]We lay in sealed -off galleries
and listened for [G]rescue teams.
[D]And [Em]we scrabbled at the coal [D]face
in the lousy two -foot seams.
But the age of [F#m]coal is [D]ending,
and the new age needs new skills.
With a fuel cell and [F#m]atomics,
[D]there's another world [F#m]to build.[G][F#m]
[D]And the men who built the old [F#m]world,
their kind [D]will build the [F#m]new.
[D]For [F#m]a worl[Em]d's not buil[F#m]t by power alon[D]e,
[F#m]but by men [D]like me and you.