Old King Coal by Sturgill Simpson Lyric and Guitar Chords

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If you are looking for Old King Coal guitar chords, you’ve come to the right place.
You can play Old King Coal by Sturgill Simpson using guitar or guitar.
This song by Sturgill Simpson can also be played by that instruments.
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Old King Coal guitar chords has rhythm and included in High Top Mountain (2013) album.
You can also find another musical genres, including jazz guitar chords, country music guitar chords, pop guitar chords, world music guitar chords, and rock guitar chords here.

Old King Coal by Sturgill Simpson Guitar Chords


[Verse 1]
E
Many a man down in these here hills
Made a living off that
B7
old black
E
gold
E
Now there ain’t nothing but welfare and pills
And the wind never
B7
felt so
E
cold

[Verse 2]
I’ll be

E
one of the first in a long long line
Not to go down from that
B7
old black
E
lung
My
E
death will be slower than the rest of my kind
And my life will be sadder than the
B7
songs they all
E
sung[E/F#][E/G#]

!

A
Old King Coal what are
E
we gonna do
When the mountains are gone and
B7
so are
E
you[E/F#][E/G#]

!

They
A
come from the city
E
to lend a hand
Carrying signs saying, “Shut the mines
B7
down”
We ain’t
A
looking for pity and you
E
don’t [E/F#]un – [E/G#]der –
A
stand
So go
E
back to your city now cause
B7
this ain’t your
E
town

[Instrumental]

A
E
E
B7
E

[Verse 3]

E
My Great Grandfather spent his days in a coal mine
And his nights on the
B7
porch in a
E
chair
E
Now he’s in heaven and down here in hell
The
B7
rivers run muddy and the
A
moun – [A/G#]tains [A/F#]are
E
bare[E/F#][E/G#]

!

A
Old King Coal what are
E
we gonna do
When the mountains are gone and
B7
so are
E
you[E/F#][E/G#]
A
Old King Coal what are
E
we gonna do
When the mountains are gone and
B7
so are
E
you

If you want to learn Sturgill Simpson Old King Coal guitar chords, The 5 chords we’ll look at are the C major, A major, G major, E major, and D major.
The reason we use all major chords is that the minor versions of any of these chords just require tiny adjustments.
Each one of those minor chords is completely based on its major counterpart

The more you practice, the easier guitar will feel to play Old King Coal. Guitar is hard to learn in the beginning, but gets easier the longer you stick with it.

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