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[Verse]
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Well it was good one time everything was mighty fine
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The coal tipples roared day and night
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But things they got slow for no reason that I know
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And ill winds they hove into sight

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Then the mines all closed down everybody laid around
      C/G         G            C/G
There wasn’t very much left to do
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Except stand in that line to get your ration script on time
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And woman I could see it killin’ you

[Chorus]
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Now the soft new snows of December
        Am   F         C/G
Lightly fall my cabin ’round
         C/G    C7            F
Saw that last train from Poor Valley
       C/G   F      G              C/G
Takin’ brown haired Becky Richmond bound

[Instrumental]
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C/G G C/G
C/G G F C/G
C/G G C/G

[Verse]
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It’s been a comin’ on and on lord soon you would be gone
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I think leavin’ crossed your mind every day
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Then you said to me things are bad back home you see
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I guess I better be on my way

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Well I should blame you now but I never could somehow
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A miner’s wife you weren’t cutout to be
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It wasn’t what you thought just some dreams you had bought
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When you left home and ran away with me

[Chorus]
        C/G                 G  C/G
Now the soft new snows of December
        Am   F         C/G
Lightly fall my cabin ’round
         C/G    C7            F
Saw that last train from Poor Valley
       C/G   F      G              C/G
Takin’ brown haired Becky Richmond bound

[Instrumental]
C/G G F C/G
C/G G C/G
C/G G F C/G
C/G G C/G

[Chorus]
        C/G                 G  C/G
Now the soft new snows of December
        Am   F         C/G
Lightly fall my cabin ’round
         C/G    C7            F
Saw that last train from Poor Valley
       C/G   F      G              C/G
Takin’ brown haired Becky Richmond bound