Chord Gitar Andrew Mcknight Chance Mccoy Les Thompson - Made By Hand

INTRO: Em G D Am Em G D C

VERSE:
Em               G
Granddad was a union man,
        D                Am
Worked deep beneath the ground
Em                   G
Said a prayer in the morning,
      D                      C
And again to see the sun go down
Em                G
Day from night by lantern light,
    D             Am
To earn enough to eat
C                     G
Saturday moon on the mountainside,
     D                  Em
The fiddle moved their feet

VERSE:
Em          G
Went in the mines at fourteen,
        D             Am
Took a wife at twenty one
Em                      G
Raised five kids in the holler,
D              C
Like his daddy done
Em                    G
Company cut costs and corners,
D             Am
Everywhere it could
       C            G
Still every Sunday they gave thanks,
D                Em
That they had it good

CHORUS:
   C                    G
I know that times are changing,
      D               G
They say progress is good
C               G
But do we honor honest work,
     D              Em
Like my granddaddy would
     C             G
The eagle soaring high,
          D              G
Would he recognize this land
C               G
Built upon the sturdy backs,
     D                Em
Of those who made by hand

INSTRUMENTAL:
Em G D Am Em G D C

VERSE:
    Em               G
My daddy left these mountains
         D          Am
For the mills of Ohio
    Em                    G
He rolled the steel that won the war,
      D            C
Far away from his home
Em                G
Back in grandad’s holler,
     D                   Am
Big timber stripped the land
          C
Laid the railroad tracks
      G
That can’t bring back,
      D                   Em
The lives they’d made by hand

INSTRUMENTAL:
Em G D Am Em G D C
Em G D Am Em G D C

VERSE:
   Em               G
I long for West Virginia,
     D                 Am
Her hard blue rolling hills
Em                G
Memories of childhood,
   D                  C
I hear those echoes still
         Em               G
But our families stories vanished,
     D            Am
No trace I could find
     C              G
They even tore the mountain down,
        D             Em
Where grandad used to mine

CHORUS:
   C                    G
I know that times are changing,
      D               G
They say progress is good
    C            G
But do we honor honest work,
     D              Em
Like my granddaddy would
     C             G
The eagle soaring high,
          D              G
Would he recognize this land
C               G
Built upon the sturdy backs,
     D                Em
Of those who made by hand

OUTRO:
C G
Built upon the sturdy backs,
D Em
Of those who made by hand