C

[Verse]
C
Three weeks out of prison, he drives the cold Missouri night
                                                                Am
There's strip malls and abandoned mines out on the left and the right
   C
He drives into Mount Olive and the Becker Funeral Home
                                                                      Am
Where his daddy's lying with a cold hard stare, black lung and broken bones

[Chorus]
         F
The most dangerous woman in America
                         Am
Is buried on the edge of town
     F                                   C
Hey, look out Ma, another miner's going down

[Verse]
C
Well, it's darker than a dungeon down in those abandoned mines
                                                                      Am
He's drunk in the house of knowledge, plays Sixteen Tonnes a thousand times
     C
It's colder than a witch's tit when the wind blows through these streets
                                                           Am
Old mining men at the Legion Bar, they're staring at their feet

[Chorus]
         F
The most dangerous woman in America
                         Am
Is buried on the edge of town
     F                                   C
Hey, look out Ma, another miner's going down

[Verse]
C
Well, the wind blows through the empty rooms of a corporation barn
                                                                         Am
There's a little blue man on the kitchen floor, shooting sparks into his arm
          C
There's a three-car funeral rolling by, out on the county line
                                                          Am
"Bye-bye Daddy, you're heaven bound, but right now, so am I"

[Chorus]
         F
The most dangerous woman in America
                         Am
Is buried on the edge of town
     F                                     C
Next to the grave where they lay his daddy down

[Bridge]
         F                                   Em
And that night in the house of knowledge, he buys him a thirty-eight
    Am                                C
And drives out to the discount liquor store on the interstate
         F                                Em
The most dangerous woman in America has a tear froze in her eye
        Am                                                       G
For the sons and daughters of mining men who've lost their way tonight

[Bridge]
        Am    F     Am    F
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

[Verse]
      C
Well, bullets fly and one man dies and one drives off alone
                                                    Am
To the cemetery at midnight and the grave of Mother Jones
   C
He whispers low his daddy's name then, "Mother, I've come to pray and pay
                                                            Am
For all you've done for the mining men, back in the violent day

[Chorus]
         F
The most dangerous woman in America
                          Am
Smiles deep in the frozen ground
            F                                       C
And there's sirens coming through a dead-end mining town

[Chorus]
         F
The most dangerous woman in America
                         Am
Is buried on the edge of town
     F                                 C
Hey, look out Ma, another man is going down