North Country Blues Chords

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[Verse 1]
[F]Com[Am]e gat[G]he[Am]r rou[G]nd,[Am]
friends, and I'll tell [G]you a tale
Of when the [Am]red iron or
[G]bits have run [Am]plenty
But the cobbled filled windows
and old [G]men on the benches
Tell [Am]you now that the [G]whole town's [Am]empty
In the north end of town my
own [G]children have grown
But [Am]I was raised on the other
In the wee hours of use,
[G]my mother took sick
And [Am]I was brought up[G] by my bro[Am]ther
The iron ore poured as
[G]the years passed us on
The drag [Am]lines and [G]shovels
was [Am]a -hummin'
Till one day my brother
[G]failed to come home
The [Am]same as my father [G]before [Am]him
Well the long winter's waitin'
from the [G]window I watched
My [Am]friends,
they could[G]n't have been [Am]kinder
And my school, it was cut as I quit [G]in the
spring
To marry
[Am]John
[G]Thomas, a min[Am]er
Oh, the years passed again
and the [G]giving was good
With the lunch [Am]bucket [G]filled every season
[Am]What with three babies born
the [G]work was cut
down
To [Am]half a day's [G]shift and no reas[Am]on
Then the shaft was soon shut
and [G]my work was cut
And the [Am]firing [G]air it held [Am]frozen
Till a man came to speak and
[G]he said in one week
That [Am]number elev[G]en was
clos[Am]ing
Complained in the
East they're [G]paying too high
They say [Am]that your [G]ore
ain't worth dig[Am]gin'
That it's much cheaper down the
[G]South
American towns
Well, [Am]miners work [G]al most [Am]for nothing
So the mining gate's locked
and the [G]red iron
rotting
And [Am]the room smelled [G]heavy
from drink[Am]ing
Well, a sad song made me [G]out twice as long
As [Am]I waited for the sun [G]to go sink[Am]ing
I lived by the window as
[G]he talked to himself
The si[Am]lence of [G]tongues it was build[Am]ing
Then one morning's week,
the bank [G]was bare
And I'd [Am]slept [G]alone with three chil[Am]dren
When summer is gone,
[G]the ground's turning cold
The [Am]stars, one [G]by one, they are [G]folding
[Am]My children will go as
[G]soon as they grow
[G]Well, there ain't [Am]noth
in' here now to hold
[Am]em'
you