Вступление
Capo 4
[Intro] (x4)
(G)
[Verse]
GCD
My history is no secret, it's written in the stones
GCG
In the hill beside this river, rest my mother gentle bones
GCD
And daddy there beside her home a- mong his next of kin
GCG
And their legacy passed down to me, the sons of mountain men
GCD
Raised to be a miner by a miners callused hands
GCG
Passed my youth between these mountains where I grew to under- stand
GCD
That family was the word of God and faith was its de- mand
GCG
And life and death, the same came from the coal beneath this land
[Chorus]
DGDG
Well, a rich man writes the book of laws a poor man must de- fend
CGEm
But the highest laws are written on the hearts of honest men
GCD
If that cup is passed to me to do what must be done
GCG
When they lay me down remind them I was just my father's son
[Instrumental]
(G) | (G) | (C) | (D) | (G) | (G) | (C) | (G)
[Verse]
GCD
I've walked among these people, heard the stories that they tell
GCG
I've crawled beside them in the mines and touched the walls of hell
GCD
I've shared their sacred secrets, known their triumph and their pain
GCG
And right or wrong I'll stand with them on the final judgment day
GCD
They say God gives his comfort when the time of trouble comes
GCG
They say we'll own no share of peace till we lay down our guns
GCD
But will my boy have the chance to do the things I've never done
GCG
Or will he, like me, be told that he must be his father's son?
[Chorus]
DGDG
Well, a rich man writes the book of laws a poor man must de- fend
CGEm
But the highest laws are written on the hearts of honest men
GCD
When that cup is passed to me to do what must be done
G
On a chunk of coal just carve these words, ''I was just my father's son...''