We Work The Black Seam

Transcribed by Fernando Duran Soto

     Am

This place has changed for good

      C         Em7           Am     Fmaj7

Your economic theory said it would

      Am

It's hard for us to understand

    C                 Em7         Am         Fmaj7

We can't give up our jobs the way we should

     Am

Our blood has stained the coal

    C              Em7            Am      Fmaj7

We tunneled deep inside the nation's soul

   Am

We matter more than pounds and pence

     C         Em7         Am

Your economic theory makes no sense



F            C

One day in a nuclear age

Dm             Am

They may understand our rage

F                              C

They build machines that they can't control

    Dm                  Am

And bury the waste in a great big hole

F                    C

Power was to become cheap and clean

Dm               Am

Grimy faces were never seen

F                   C                Dm         F

Deadly for twelve thousand years is carbon fourteen

    Am                          C6   Em7sus

We work the black seam together

    Am                           Fmaj7

We work the black seam together



    Am

The seam lies underground

       C                Em7                 Am  Famj7

Three million years of pressure packed it down

    Am

We walk through ancient forest lands

    C                 Em7           Am      Fmaj7

And light a thousand cities with our hands

     Am

Your dark satanic mills

      C             Em7            Am      Fmaj7

Have made redundant all our mining skills

     Am

You can't exchange a six inch band

    C                 Em7

For all the poisoned streams in Cumberland



F            C

One day in a nuclear age

Dm             Am

They may understand our rage

F                              C

They build machines that they can't control

    Dm                  Am

And bury the waste in a great big hole

F                    C

Power was to become cheap and clean

Dm               Am

Grimy faces were never seen

F                   C                Dm         F

Deadly for twelve thousand years is carbon fourteen

    Am                          C6   Em7sus

We work the black seam together

    Am                           Fmaj7

We work the black seam together



Am

Should the children weep

      C                Em7                   Am   Fmaj7

The turning world will sing their souls to sleep

     Am

When you have sunk without a trace

     C             Em7       Am

The universe will suck me into place



F            C

One day in a nuclear age

Dm             Am

They may understand our rage

F                              C

They build machines that they can't control

    Dm                  Am

And bury the waste in a great big hole

F                    C

Power was to become cheap and clean

Dm               Am

Grimy faces were never seen

F                   C                Dm         F

Deadly for twelve thousand years is carbon fourteen

    Am                          C6   Em7sus

We work the black seam together

    Am                           Fmaj7

We work the black seam together.



C     : 032010

Em7   : 020000

Fmaj7 : 003210

C6    : 002213

Em7sus: 020200
Transcribed by Fernando Duran Soto Bogota - Colombia feduso@hotmail.com