Gordon Lightfoot — Sweet Guinevere
weaseldog2001@yahoo.com Sweet Guinevere (Gordon Lightfoot) Waltz D G D A Sweet Guinevere you're off to the coal town tonight G D A And your young brother Ernie's up in Pittsburgh PA D G D A You know mother loves you, and dad's in the mine G A D So don't go to the coal town, Guinevere, if you're kind D G D A She loves a young man and he lives in the town G D G A And he leaves the house early for he works underground D G D A He makes a good wage for a coal miners son G A D And shes a bit pretty, just turned twenty-one D G D A Sweet Guinevere you're off to the coal town tonight G D A And your young brother Ernie's up in Pittsburgh PA D G D A You know mother loves you, and dad's in the mine G A D So don't go to the coal town, Guinevere, shut the blind D G D A She knows her good mother's not feelin no pain G D A She remembers an explosion and the black falling rain D G D A She paints her thin lips in her dewy-eyed way G A D Then she says to the daughter, dear daughter I pray D G D A Sweet Guinevere you're off to the coal town tonight G D A And your young brother Ernie's up in Pittsburgh PA D G D A You know mother loves you, and dad's in the mine G A D So don't go to the coal town, Guinevere, if you're kind
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