Tonart: C major
Intro 1
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Dm
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Gm
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Gm
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My father worked in a shirt
Verse 1
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The factory floor was
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the place he felt alive
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An old dust coat of ink and brown
Machine aboard as he
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pushed the lever down
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And I would feel the warmth
Of the power in his hands that
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he'd ap plied
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And watched him as he worked,
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a man that was a hero to my eye
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My mother cared for the broken few
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She filled their plates and did all she could
Do
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She'd hurry home to work
some more
To smooth the sheets, to tidy up the floor
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And I would feel the warmth
From everything she made
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here with her hand
Dm
And we would see this home
As the center of a maple
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rock to spare
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Am
And she said, sleep my darlings please
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Am
Put your mind at ease
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Am
Tomorrow we'll be free
Ooh, again
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He grew the crops of a family life
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Delivered fruits to his
children and his wife
Then out of nothing he lost his place
Things fell apart, a feeling of disgrace
Dm
And he would often wake and ask her
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Have I given all I can?
Dm
And felt we looked at him to ask
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Is he the measure of a man?
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Am
And she said, sleep my darling, please
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Am
Put your mind at ease
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Am
Tomorrow you'll be free
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C
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to start again
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And now I work in a counting house I manage life,
but only just about
I really can't complain at all
My kids, my wife, the beauty of it all
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But all that I can see
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Are a thousand little problems in my mind
Dm
I'm trying to make it work
I'm trying to use the
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Am
And you say, sleep my darling, please
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Am
Put your mind at ease
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Am
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Tomorrow you'll be free to start again,
oh again
Got to make it work, got to make it work
Got to make it work, got to make it work
Gotta make it work
Gotta make it work
Gotta make it work
Gotta make it work
Gotta make it work
Gotta make it work
Gotta make it work
Gotta make it work
Gotta make it work
G
Gotta
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G
Gotta make it work
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