Coal Miner's Grave

It's Only Coal Miner's Grave – Hazel [bad word] (¾ Time, Waltz Time)...

Intro: D, D, D, D, G, G, G, G, A, A, A, A, D, G, D, D... (Each letter name is a 3-beat measure)...

 Up there on that hillside... there's... an old miner's grave...
 And the briars and bushes... that a-bout... cover it up these days...
 And there's no one to claim it... or care if he's gone a-way...
 For he was only a miner, and it's only... a coal miner's grave...
 So, pay no attention... it's only an old miner's grave...
Pay no attention... to the briars and the weeds... let them stay...
 Cause who's gonna miss him... or care, that he's gone a-way...
 He was only a miner, and it's only a coal miner's grave...
Fiddle Solo... 
Dobro Solo...
Francis Estep... from Holly Grove W.Va...
 In nineteen and thirteen, loaded coal ten hours a day...
Six days a week... forty-seven and a half cents a ton...
 He was shot down by gun thugs... at the young age of, thirty-one...
 So the briars and brambles, ramble all over his grave...
 Like the thorns in his life... for living, he had to pay...
 Now there's no one to miss him... care that he's gone a-way...
 He was only a miner, and it's only... a coal miner's grave...
Dobro Solo...
Fiddle Solo... 
Page 1 of 2It's Only Coal Miner's Grave – Cont'd
 So, is this little marker... his only memorial, to-day?...
 man, who gave his life... for the U.M.W.of A...
 Is this how we remember... all the sacrifices... he made?
 To let the briars and the weeds... take over his Un-ion and grave...
End...