North Country Blues – Joan Baez
Nghệ sĩ: Joan Baez
CHORD
Bảng hợp âm và lời bài hát North Country Blues – Joan Baez
NORTH COUNTRY BLUES
As recorded by Joan Baez
(From the 1968 ANY DAY NOW)
Capo 4th fret.
If you don't want to use a capo transpose +4 steps.
Intro
Verse 1→ Phiên khúc
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Come gather 'round friends
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And I'll tell you a tale
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Of when the red iron ore pits ran plenty
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But the cardboard filled windows
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And old men on the benches
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Tell you now that the whole town is empty
Verse 2→ Phiên khúc
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In the north end of town
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My own children are grown
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But I was raised up on the other
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In the wee hours of youth
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My mother took sick
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And I was brought up by my brother
Verse 3→ Phiên khúc
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The iron ore poured
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As the years passed the door
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The drag lines an' the shovels they was a-humming
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'Til one day my brother
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Failed to come home
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The same as my father before him
Verse 4→ Phiên khúc
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Well a long winter's wait
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From the window I watched
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My friends they couldn't have been kinder
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And my schooling was cut
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As I quit in the spring
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To marry John Thomas, a miner
Verse 5→ Phiên khúc
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Oh the years passed again
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And the givin' was good
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With the lunch buckets filled every season
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What with three babies born
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The work was cut down
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To a half a day's shift with no reason
Verse 6→ Phiên khúc
ch]Em[/ch
Then the shaft was soon shut
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And my work it was cut
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And the fire in the air, it felt frozen
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'Til a man come to speak
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And he said in one week
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That number eleven was closin'
Verse 7→ Phiên khúc
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They complained in the East
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They are paying too high
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They say that your ore ain't worth digging
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That it's much cheaper down
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In the South American towns
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Where the miners work almost for nothing
Verse 8→ Phiên khúc
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So the mining gates locked
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And the red iron rotted
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And the room smelled heavy from drinking
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Where the sad, silent song
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Made the hour twice as long
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As I waited for the sun to go sinking
Verse 9→ Phiên khúc
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I lived by the window
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As he talked to himself
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This silence of tongues it was building
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Then one morning's wake
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The bed it was bare
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And I's left alone with three children
Verse 10→ Phiên khúc
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The summer is gone
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The ground's turning cold
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The stores one by one they're a-foldin'
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My children will go
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As soon as they grow
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Oh, there ain't nothing here now to hold them