{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":2210171,"song":"The Big Hewer","artist":"Ewan MacColl","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11468350-the-big-hewer-chords-by-ewan-maccoll/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/2210171?type=chord","rating":4.73971,"votes":3,"content":"[Verse 1]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]             [ch]D[/ch]                   [ch]E7[/ch]        [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nOut of the dirt and darkness I was born, go down![/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                      [ch]Em[/ch]            [ch]Am[/ch]       [ch]E7[/ch]\r\nOut of the hard black coalface I was torn, go down![/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nKicked on the world and the earth split open[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E7[/ch]                 [ch]Am[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nCrawled through a crack where the rock was broken[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch]           [ch]Am[/ch]    [ch]Dm[/ch]        [ch]E7[/ch]        [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nBurrowed a hole, away in the coal, go down![/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 2]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]             [ch]D[/ch]                           [ch]E7[/ch]        [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nIn a cradle of coal in the darkness I was laid, go down![/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                      [ch]Em[/ch]            [ch]Am[/ch]       [ch]E7[/ch]\r\nDown in the dirt and darkness I was raised, go down![/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nCut me teeth on a five-foot timber[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E7[/ch]         [ch]Am[/ch]            [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nHeld up the roof with my little finger[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch]           [ch]Am[/ch]    [ch]Dm[/ch]        [ch]E7[/ch]        [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nStarted me time away in the mine, go down![/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 3]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                    [ch]D[/ch]                   [ch]E7[/ch]        [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nOn the day that I was born I was six feet tall, go down![/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                      [ch]Em[/ch]                 [ch]Am[/ch]       [ch]E7[/ch]\r\nAnd the very next day I learned the way to haul, go down![/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nOn the third day worked at board and piller[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E7[/ch]              [ch]Am[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nWorked on the fourth as a long-wall filler[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch]           [ch]Am[/ch]       [ch]Dm[/ch]        [ch]E7[/ch]        [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nGetting me steam up, hewing the seam, go down![/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 4]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                    [ch]D[/ch]                       [ch]E7[/ch]        [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nI'm the son of the son of the son of a collier's son, go down![/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                      [ch]Em[/ch]                        [ch]Am[/ch]       [ch]E7[/ch]\r\nCoal dust runs in the veins where the blood should run, go down![/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nFive steel ribs and an iron backbone[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E7[/ch]              [ch]Am[/ch]            [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nTeeth that can bite through rock and blackstone[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch]           [ch]Am[/ch]       [ch]Dm[/ch]        [ch]E7[/ch]        [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nWorking me time, away in the mine, go down![/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 5]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                [ch]D[/ch]                       [ch]E7[/ch]        [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThree hundred years I hewed at the coal by hand, go down![/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                [ch]Em[/ch]                     [ch]Am[/ch]       [ch]E7[/ch]\r\nIn the pits of Durham and East Northumberland, go down![/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nBeen gassed and burned and blown asunder[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E7[/ch]           [ch]Am[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nBuried more times than I can number[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch]           [ch]Am[/ch]       [ch]Dm[/ch]        [ch]E7[/ch]        [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nGetting the coal, away in the hole, go down![/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 6]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                    [ch]D[/ch]                                 [ch]E7[/ch]        [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nI've scrabbled and picked at the face where the roof was low, go down![/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                [ch]Em[/ch]                        [ch]Am[/ch]       [ch]E7[/ch]\r\nCrawled in the seams where only a mole could go, go down![/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nIn the thin-cut seams I've ripped and redded[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E7[/ch]              [ch]Am[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nWhere even the rats are born bow-legged[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch]           [ch]Am[/ch]       [ch]Dm[/ch]        [ch]E7[/ch]        [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nWinning the coal, away in the hole, go down![/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 7]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                    [ch]D[/ch]                              [ch]E7[/ch]        [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nI've worked in the Hutton, the Plessey, the Brockwell Seam, go down![/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                  [ch]Em[/ch]                             [ch]Am[/ch]       [ch]E7[/ch]\r\nThe Bensham, the Busty, the Beaumont, the Marshall Green, go down![/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nI've lain on me back in the old three-quarter[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E7[/ch]         [ch]Am[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nUp to the chin in stinking water[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch]           [ch]Am[/ch]    [ch]Dm[/ch]        [ch]E7[/ch]        [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nHewing the coal, away in the hole, go down![/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 8]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                    [ch]D[/ch]                       [ch]E7[/ch]        [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nIn the northern pits I've sweated and earned me pay, go down![/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                      [ch]Em[/ch]                   [ch]Am[/ch]       [ch]E7[/ch]\r\nToiled in the worn-out drift mines night and day, go down![/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nWhere the anthracite is hard and shining[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E7[/ch]              [ch]Am[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nI've tried me hand at the hard-rock mining[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch]         [ch]Am[/ch]      [ch]Dm[/ch]        [ch]E7[/ch]        [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nI dug me a hole away in the coal, go down![/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 9]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                    [ch]D[/ch]             [ch]E7[/ch]        [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nOut of the dirt and darkness I was born, go down![/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                      [ch]Em[/ch]             [ch]Am[/ch]       [ch]E7[/ch]\r\nOut of the hard black coal-face I was torn, go down![/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nLived in the shade of the high pit heap[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E7[/ch]              [ch]Am[/ch]            [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nI'm still down there where the seams are deep[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch]        [ch]Am[/ch]       [ch]Dm[/ch]        [ch]E7[/ch]        [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nDigging a hole, away in the coal, go down![/tab]","plain_text":"[Verse 1]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 2]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 3]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 4]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 5]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 6]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 7]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 8]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 9]","chords":["Am","D","E7","Em","C","G","Dm"],"chord_diagrams":{"Am":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,2,3,1,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,1,0]},"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"Dm":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,2,3,1],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,1]},"E7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,0,1,0,0],"frets":[0,2,0,1,0,0]},"Em":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,0,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,0,0,0]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}