🎸 We Work The Black Seam chords by Sting

Vers 1:
   Am
This place has changed for good
   C    Em7      Am
Your economic theory said it would
   Am
It's hard for us to understand
  C         Em7      Am
We can't give up our jobs the way we should



  Am
Our blood has stained the coal
  C       Em7        Am
We tunneled deep inside the nation's soul
 Am
We matter more than pounds and pence
   C    Em7      Am
Your economic theory makes no sense

Chorus:
F      C
One day in a nuclear age
Dm           Am
They may understand our rage
   F             C
They build machines that they can't control
Dm           Am
And bury the waste in a great big hole
F          C
Power was to become cheap and clean
Dm        Am
Grimy faces were never seen
F         C         Dm
Deadly for twelve thousand years is carbon fourteen
Am
We work the black seam together
Am
We work the black seam together

Vers 2:
 Am
The seam lies underground
   C        Em7      Am
Three million years of pressure packed it down
  Am
We walk through ancient forest lands
  C        Em7      Am
And light a thousand cities with our hands
 Am
Your dark satanic mills
   C       Em7      Am
Have made redundant all our mining skills
 Am
You can't exchange a six inch band
   C        Em7      Am
For all the poisoned streams in Cumberland


Chorus:

F      C
One day in a nuclear age
Dm           Am
They may understand our rage
   F             C
They build machines that they can't control
Dm           Am
And bury the waste in a great big hole
F          C
Power was to become cheap and clean
Dm        Am
Grimy faces were never seen
F         C         Dm
Deadly for twelve thousand years is carbon fourteen
Am
We work the black seam together
Am
We work the black seam together


Vers 3:
 Am
Should the children weep
   C        Em7      Am
The turning world will sing their souls to sleep
 Am
When you have sunk without a trace
   C        Em7      Am
The universe will suck me into place

Am

Chorus:

F      C
One day in a nuclear age
Dm           Am
They may understand our rage
   F             C
They build machines that they can't control
Dm           Am
And bury the waste in a great big hole
F          C
Power was to become cheap and clean
Dm        Am
Grimy faces were never seen
F         C         Dm
Deadly for twelve thousand years is carbon fourteen
Am
We work the black seam together
Am
We work the black seam together