Coal Tab by Michael Penn #----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------# #This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------## From: ez049576@bullwinkle.ucdavis.edu (Michael Lewis) Coal - Michael Penn, from the album Free For All Transcribed by Mike Lewis (mclewis@ucdavis.edu) Please send any corrections, comments, and any other Michael Penn tabs to me! :-) Capo 2 Intro: (Play four times) G C(9) D [---3-3-3---3-3--------------2---------] [---3-3-3---3-3--------------3---------] [---0-0-0---0-0--------0-0-0-2---------] [---0-0-0---0-0-----0--2-2-2-0--0----0-] [---------0-----0h2----3-3-3------2'---] [-3------------------------------------] Verse G C9 G C9 G D Who'd've ever thought to call that coal, G C9 G C9 G D If my hands were warm then I might, I don't know, A7 D7 I keep panning, but in my reach, it C G C G Hangs on, water falls down, A A/G A/F# A/E There's no gold C(9) In this barren town. (Play intro twice) Verse 2 Used to be a man could make his way, With a barrel full of this black coal, Half certain you'd say, But in my reach, it Hangs on, water falls down, There's no gold, In this barren town. (Play intro twice) G Am Em C Cmaj7 G D [----------------------------------------------------] [-------------------------------------------------3--] [--0--2--4--4b5b4--2--0--------0--2--4--4--b5--b4----] [------------------------2-0-2-----------------------] [----------------------------------------------------] [----------------------------------------------------] Hang on that D for a bit, then: [-------------------] [-------------------] [-2-2-0-------------] [-------4-2-0-------] [-------------3-2-0-] [-------------------] Intro two more times, then the third verse: Look at every angle and draw the square, Find some nut you can instead untighten, Watch me in the corner with a pair, Under certain pressure ace, a diamond. So run your fingers down my back, You'd make such a cool distraction, 'cause in my reach it Hangs on, Yeah, the walls down, But there's no gold, There's a line drawn and crossed, by the banks. By the way Water falls down, There's no gold, in this barren town. Intro twice, then repeat solo, ending on D.