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Loading Coal Chords

by Johnny Cash
KeyG Capo3st fret TuningStandard Difficulty Plays416

Loading Coal by Johnny Cash is a beginner-friendly guitar song played in the key of G with a capo on the 3st fret. It uses the chords G, C, D and Em. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
G
Text
16
Speed 
  			
rd / Play: G 

INRTO: C G D G 

Verse: 
G                        Em                         
My pappy said when I was seventeen 
C                            G 
You're six feet tall and you face is clean 
G                             C        G 
And it don't look right for a boy that old 
G                    Em 
To not make a livin' loading coal 


Chorus:

Chord diagrams

Guitar tuner

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Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

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Metronome

100 BPM Andante