Level: 1
Tuning: Standard

When Merle wrote the songs that appeared on his 1963 LP "Songs Of The Coal Mines" he set out to paint a vivid picture of the Western Kentucky coal-mining culture he had grown up with. His spoken introduction in the original recording talks of men whose faces and bodies have been made old before their time by their difficult and harrowing work deep under the ground. Using mostly simple chords, this tune is a great intro to Merle's coal mining songs.