You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive by Darrell Scott

arranged for 3 string cigar box guitar tuned 1-5-1 by Glenn Watt

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In the

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deep

Well my

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there walk

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dark

hills

grandad's

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with

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of

Eastern Kentucky. That's the place where

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read me

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dad walked down

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I

about

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on a

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hillmouth

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side

of

this

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drinking and you spend your life just thinkin' of how

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I

traced my blood- line

Tillie Hel-

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ton

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Harlan

holler or we'll never leave

Harlan alive."

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to get away

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about

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to be his

gravestone "You'll never leave

ten in the morning and the sun goes down

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Katahrin's Mountain and he asked

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out of the

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bride

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and

it's

He said, "Won't you

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alive."

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chorus: Where the sun comes up

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three in the day and you fill your cup

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with whatever

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bitter brew