Tonart: G major
Verse 1
G
D
Em
C
G
Am
D
There's an
G
D
evening haze settling over town
Em
The starlight by the edge of the creek
C
The buying power of the poultry
Am
D
Money's getting shallow and weak
G
Well, the place I love best
Em
It's a new path that we trod
C
G
They say low wages are reality
Am
D
If we wanna compete abroad
G
My cruel weapons have been
G
Em
Come sit down on my knee
C
G
You are dearer to me than myself
Am
As you yourself can see
D
G
D
While I'm listening to the steel rails hum,
Em
got both eyes to the shell
C
Em
Just sitting here trying to keep the hunger
Am
D
from creeping its way into my gut
Am
bring me my boots and shoes
G
C
You can hang back and fight your
Am
Let's sing a little bit of these work
D
G
ing man blues
Well, I'm sailing on back,
D
I'm ready for the long haul
Em
Tossed by the winds and the seas
C
I'll drag them all down to hell
G
I'll stand them at the wall,
Am
D
I'll sell them to the refugees
G
I'm a -tryin' to feed my
G
Em
Gonna sleep off the rest of the day
C
Sometimes you know once
Am
sometimes you can't give it away
D
G
Now the place is ringed
with countless foes,
Em
some of them may be deaf and dumb
C
G
No man and no woman knows
Am
D
the hour that's on the call
G
D
In the dark I hear the night birds call,
Em
I can feel a lover's breath
G
with my feet in the hall
Am
D
Sleep is like a temporary death
Am
Bring me my boots and shoes
G
C
You can hang back and fight your best
Am
Sing a little bit of these
D
G
working angles
Well, they burned my barn,
G
I don't want to be forced
Am
D
Into a life of continual crime
Em
How I wish you were here to see
C
G
Tell me now am I wrong
Am
D
And think that you have forgotten me
G
Now they worry and they hurry
D
And they fuss and they fret
Em
They waste your nights and days
C
G
Them I won't forget
Am
D
But you I'll remember always
D
G
me have clung
Em
You've wounded me with your words
C
I'm gonna have to straighten
Am
D
It's all true, everything you've heard
Am
Bring me my boots and shoes
G
C
You can hang back and fight your best
Am
D
G
Sing a little bit of these working men
D
And you my friend, I find no blame
Em
You wanna look in my eyes, please do
C
G
No one can ever claim
Am
D
That I took up arms against you
G
D
All across the peaceful sacred fields,
Em
they will lay you alone
C
They'll break your horns,
Am
I say it so it must be so
D
G
Now I'm down on my luck
D
and I'm black and blue,
Em
I'm gonna give you another chance
C
G
I'm all alone, I'm expecting you
Am
to lead me off in a cheerful dance
D
G
D
I got a brand new suit, a brand new wife
Em
I can live on rice and beans
C
Some people have a world,
Am
D
Don't know what work even means
Am
Bring me my books and shoes
G
C
You can hang back and fight your best
Am
D
Sing a little bit of these working bands
G
D
Em
C
G
Am
D
G
D
Em
C
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