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Patty Loveless - You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive


## NOTE: ~ = Walk-Down between Chords ##


CAPO: 3rd Fret



[INTRO]
           

          
In the deep da

  (      (
rk hills of Ea

        (
stern Kentucky
          (
That's the pla

          ( 
ce where I tra

          (
ce my bloodlin

e
             
And it's there

            
 I read on a h

        
illside graves

tone 
            
"You'll never 

            
leave Harlan a

 
live"


              
Oh, my grandfa

             
ther's dad cro

             
ssed the Cumbe

      
rland Mountain

s
            
Where he took 

             
a pretty girl 

          
to be his brid

e
              
Said, "Won't y

             
ou walk with m

             
e out the mout

          
h of this holl

er
            
Or we'll never

            
 leave Harlan 

 
alive?"


[CHORUS]
              
Where the sun 

             
comes up about

    ~      
 ten in the mo

rning
            ~ 
And the sun go

            
es down about 

     ~      
three in the d

ay
              
And you'll fil

             
l your cup wit

             
h whatever bit

    ~         
ter brew you'r

  
e drinking
              
And you spend 

~           
your life just

             
 thinking of h

           
ow to get away


             
No one ever kn

             
ew there was c

            
oal in them mo

untains
            
'Til a man fro

             
m the northeas

    
t arrived
              
Waving hundred

             
 dollar bills,

             
 said, "I'll p

              
ay you for you

      
r minerals"
            
But he never l

           
eft Harlan ali

   
ve


              
Grandma sold o

             
ut cheap and t

             
hey moved out 

        
west of Pinevi

lle
            
To a farm wher

             
e big Richland

       
 River winds
              
And I bet they

              
 danced them a

             
 jig and they 

             
laughed and sa

         
ng a new song
              
"Who said we'd

           
 never leave H

          
arlan alive?"


[INSTRUMENTAL]
                                   
 

              
But the times 

             
they got hard 

             
and tobacco wa

     
sn't selling
            
And old grandd

             
ad knew what h

             
e'd do to surv

ive
              
He went and du

             
g for Harlan c

              
oal and sent t

             
he money back 

   
to grandma
            
But he never l

           
eft Harlan ali

  
ve


[CHORUS]
              
The sun comes 

           ~
up about ten i

      
n the morning
            ~ 
And the sun go

            
es down about 

     ~      
three in the d

ay
              
And you'll fil

             
l your cup wit

             
h whatever bit

    ~         
ter brew you'r

  
e drinking
              
And you spend 

~           
your life digg

              
ing coal from 

             
the bottom of 

     
your grave


[INTERLUDE]
        
Hm hm hmm hm h

            
m hmm hm hm hm

      
m hmm hmm
            
Hm hm hmm hm h

        
m hmm hm hmm 
              
Hm hm hmm hm h

            
m hmm hm hmm h

     
m hm hmm
            
"You'll never 

            
leave Harlan a

 
live"


[OUTRO]     (## repeat 2x ##)