Come All You Gallant Colliers Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
Now [D]come [F]all you [D]gallant
collier[Am]s
[D]wherever you may be
Whether you work the Rhondda
or in the North [G]Coun[F#m]try
[D]All you 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 hundred thousand [F#m]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 [Am]the [Em]world we l[F#m]ive in,
it was [D]built upon the miners' trade
We tunneled under mountains
[F#m]and be[D]neath the salt sea waves
The slagheaps [G]marked [D]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 [D]at the coal face
in the lousy two -foot seams.
But the age of coal is 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 world,
[F#m]their kind [D]will build the new.
[F#m]For a worl[D]d's[Em] not built b[F#m]y power alone,[D]
but by men like me and you.