Chords for Dick Gaughan - Handful of Earth

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_ Come, all of you workers, you [C#]
toil [G#] night and day [C#] by hand and by brain
To earn your [G#] pay, who for centuries long past, for no more than your bread
[C#] Have bled [G#] for your countries and counted your dead in the factories and mills
In the shipyards and _ mines, [C#] we've often been told
To keep up [G#] with the times, for our skills are not needed
[C#] They've [G#] streamlined the job [C#m] and the slide [G#]-room stopwatch
Our pride they've [C#] robbed aye
But [G#] when the sky darkens [C#] and the prospect [G#] is war
_ [C#] Who's given a gun and then pushed [G#] to the floor and expected to die
[C#] For the land of [G#] our _ [C#] land we've never [G#] owned one handful of air
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We're the first ones to starve, we're the first ones to die
We're [C#] the first ones in line for that [G#] pie in the sky and we're always the last
[C#] When the cream is [G#] sheared down [C#] for the [G#] workers working
When the fat [C#] cats are bowed aye [G#] and all of these things
The worker has done [C#] from tilling the fields
[G#] To carrying the gun moving you to the plough
_ Since time first began [C#] I had always [G#] expected to carry the can
I had always _ _ _ _ expected _ _ _ _ to _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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