Devils Ground (CHORDS) by Billy Mitchell

[Verse 1]~
Dm                                Am
In a northern land we call god’s country

           G              Dm
In a valley wide his works abound

   Dm                      Am
And god on high surveys his bounty

              G                  Dm
Each glorious sight each wondrous sound

        C                  G
But down below there’s dark temptation

         Am                Dm
An age of tears waits to be found

           C            G
Ten million years in its creation

           Am                  Dm
Now there’s coal in the devil’s ground


[Verse 2]~
Dm                          Am
So helpless men are sent to plunder

               G             Dm
There desperate needs here to fulfil

     Dm                     Am
And a northern land is wrent asunder

            G                        Dm
But there’ll be grist for the devil’s mill

        C               G
For down below his congregation

           Am                 Dm
Swells with those who ventured down

       C            G
When he bestowed his invitation

             Am                   Dm
To lose their souls in the devil’s ground


[Verse 3]~
Dm                             Am
Two hundred years and now it’s ended

       G                    Dm
And god regains his northern crown

    Dm                          Am
This pitted land it’s scars soon mended

           G                    Dm
Ten million years till next time round

        C                  G
But down below ten thousand miners

        Am                     Dm
Of their flesh he’s claimed his pound

         C                       G
Long will they lay in the devil’s darkness

              Am                  Dm
And they’ll be coal in the devil’s ground