D Dsus4 D Dsus2 D Cadd9 G

To make the tab ez'r to follow, I'll call them D*D / D*G 
CHORUS:( note a G  A or just strum an A  )


Intro D*D 4times

D*D                                                 Cadd9      D
He was a coal miner in the spring, blinded with its dusty resolutions
                    Cadd9            D                 A          G
broke his back for higher contributions, now he'd take anything
                       D                        Cadd9         D
we'll she was nineteen-seventy, burning like a cigarette long season
                Cadd9        D                   A                      
Heir to all her family's old treasons, she makes love hard like an enemy
    C        G       D
          Oh ma he's dying

CHORUS:

D*D                            D*D
    And the river don't sleep,     when the water runs cold
D*G                          D*D                
    and the calender burns,       as the story unfolds
D*D                             D*D
    and the valley spans miles,    when the mountain stands high
D*G                                A  ...                   D*D 
    can't they let us run wild,    for another midnight....

D*D                                               Cadd9      D
Perhaps we're an election day, pumping hands and kissing the babies
                  Cadd9                 D              A              
in't no time for shadowed doubts or maybes is there another way?
G                D                        Cadd9            D
Or we're a stolen cadillac racing for a roadblock in the distance
              Cadd9           D              A    
flashing by a lifetime in an instance can we take it back?
   C      G         D            C     G       D  
       oh ma he's dying,           oh ma he's dying

CHORUS D PEAT EXCEPT (play last line as below)
D*G       G  A  G  D (let ring)

BDA K....
D........... (adlib)
can we take it back?

D*D                           D*D 
   and the valley spans miles,   when the mountain stands high
D*G                                          
   can't they let us run wild           
      G  A   (5 times)    
for another midnight, ......... D*D