Key: A
Introduction: Am
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Oh, can't you see that pretty little bird
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Singing with all his heart and soul?
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He's got a blood red spot on his wing
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And all the rest of him's black as coal
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Of all the colours I ever did see
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Red and black are the ones I dread
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For when a man spills blood on the coal
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They carry him down from the coal mines dead
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Oh, fly away you red-winged bird
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Leave behind the miner's wife
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She'll dream about you when you're gone
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She'll dream about you all her life
C G Am
Oh, can't you see that pretty little bird
G Em Am
Singing with all his heart and soul?
C G Am
He's got a blood red spot on his wing
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And all the rest of him's black as coal