Andrew Mcknight Chance Mccoy Les Thompson - Made By Hand Chords

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


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, hey, hey, hey


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