Ten Candle Days

C, F

[Verse]
C
Daddy was a hard man, worked coal 
all his life
           G       Am
A dollar a day wage kept us alive
             C
So we headed west bound, we came of 
age
            G                 Am
Fortunes to be found, and we stake 
our claim

[Chorus]
        G               F C
Singing ah, ale-ale-alah
      C            F           C 
And when I die, won't you lay me 
on down by Rowing fork river near 
             G    C
the old aspen grove
C                            
Spend our days searching these 
    F               C             
mountains for silver ten candle 
                   G             C
days will be gone fore too long

[Verse]
C
So we found us a boom town, to work 
in the cracks
             G                     
We’re thanking the Lord now, for 
                Am
the strength in our backs
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              C
With pick ax and powder, a quick 
prayer to God
             G                   
A candle an hour, for each one on 
        Am
the job
                          C
We learned fast a man’s measured, by
 the weight of his ore
                      G            
Found the woman you treasure, could
                  Am
 love nothing more
                C
The summer of eighteen blessed us 
with a child
                G                  
A past ever changing, with pressure
       Am
 in time

[Chorus]
        G               F C
Singing ah, ale-ale-alah
      C            F           C 
And when I die, won't you lay me 
on down by Rowing fork river near 
             G    C
the old aspen grove
C                            
Spend our days searching these 
    F               C             
mountains for silver ten candle 
                   G             C
days will be gone fore too long
       F         C                
Shine on, shine On These ten 
                G
candle days shine on
       Am        G              C
Shine on, shine On   When the 
                 G
lights come down low
                  C
We'll be coming home

[Verse]
C
My brothers are gone now, black soot
 for ash
          G                        
I guess what you take out, you 
  Am
gotta give back
           C
Lonely prospector, the last of my 
kind
        G                       Am
Sole protector of this silver mine

[Chorus]
        G               F C
Singing ah, ale-ale-alah
      C            F           C 
And when I die, won't you lay me 
on down by Rowing fork river near 
             G    C
the old aspen grove
C                            
Spend our days searching these 
    F               C             
mountains for silver ten candle 
                   G             C
days will be gone fore too long
       F         C                
Shine on, shine On These ten 
                G
candle days shine on
       Am        G              C
Shine on, shine On   When the 
                 G
lights come down low
                   F      C
We'll be coming home...