Chords for Dick Gaughan - Workers' Song
Tempo:
94.575 bpm
Chords used:
Ab
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Eb
Dbm
Ebm
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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[Ab]
[Db] [Ab]
[Db]
[Ab] [Eb] [Db] [Ab]
[Db] [Ab]
Come all ye workers, [Db] you toil [Ab] night and day, [Db] by hand and by brain, to [Ab] earn your pay, who
for centuries long past, [Dbm] for no more than [Ab] your bread [Db] have [Ab] bled, for your countries encountered
your dead in their factories and mills, [Dbm] in the [Ab] shipyards and mines, [Db] we've often been
told to keep up with [Eb] the [Ab] times, but our skills are not needed, [Db] we've streamlined [Ab] the job
[Dbm] and we're sly, [Ab] drool and [Ebm] stopwatch [Db] are blind, they all die, [Ab] but when the sky darkens and
the prospect is war, [Db] who's given a gun and then pushed [Eb] to [Ab] the fore and expected to die,
[Db] for the land [Ab] of our birth, [Db] though [Ab] we've never [Eb] owned one [Ab] handful of air,
[Db] [Ab]
we're the first
ones to [Db] starve, we're the first [Ab] ones to die, [Db] we're the first ones in line, for [Ab] that pie
in the sky and we're always the last, when the cream is shaved [Db] out, for the worker [Ab] is
working, when the fat cat's [Db] about [Ab] dying, for all of these things, [Bb] the worker has [Ab] done,
[Db] from tilling the fields, [Ab] to carrying the gun, we've been yoked to the plough, [Db] since [Ab] time
first began, [Db] I always [Ab] expected to carry the can.
[Db] [Ab]
[Db] [Ab] [Db]
[Ab] [Db]
[Db] [Ab]
[Db]
[Ab] [Eb] [Db] [Ab]
[Db] [Ab]
Come all ye workers, [Db] you toil [Ab] night and day, [Db] by hand and by brain, to [Ab] earn your pay, who
for centuries long past, [Dbm] for no more than [Ab] your bread [Db] have [Ab] bled, for your countries encountered
your dead in their factories and mills, [Dbm] in the [Ab] shipyards and mines, [Db] we've often been
told to keep up with [Eb] the [Ab] times, but our skills are not needed, [Db] we've streamlined [Ab] the job
[Dbm] and we're sly, [Ab] drool and [Ebm] stopwatch [Db] are blind, they all die, [Ab] but when the sky darkens and
the prospect is war, [Db] who's given a gun and then pushed [Eb] to [Ab] the fore and expected to die,
[Db] for the land [Ab] of our birth, [Db] though [Ab] we've never [Eb] owned one [Ab] handful of air,
[Db] [Ab]
we're the first
ones to [Db] starve, we're the first [Ab] ones to die, [Db] we're the first ones in line, for [Ab] that pie
in the sky and we're always the last, when the cream is shaved [Db] out, for the worker [Ab] is
working, when the fat cat's [Db] about [Ab] dying, for all of these things, [Bb] the worker has [Ab] done,
[Db] from tilling the fields, [Ab] to carrying the gun, we've been yoked to the plough, [Db] since [Ab] time
first began, [Db] I always [Ab] expected to carry the can.
[Db] [Ab]
[Db] [Ab] [Db]
[Ab] [Db]
Key:
Ab
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Eb
Dbm
Ebm
Ab
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Eb
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_ _ _ Come all ye workers, [Db] you toil [Ab] night and day, [Db] by hand and by brain, to [Ab] earn your pay, who
for centuries long past, [Dbm] for no more than [Ab] your bread [Db] have [Ab] bled, for your countries encountered
your dead in their factories and mills, [Dbm] in the [Ab] shipyards and mines, [Db] we've often been
told to keep up with [Eb] the [Ab] times, but our skills are not needed, [Db] we've streamlined [Ab] the job
[Dbm] and we're sly, [Ab] drool and [Ebm] stopwatch [Db] are blind, they all die, [Ab] but when the sky darkens and
the prospect is war, [Db] who's given a gun and then pushed [Eb] to [Ab] the fore and expected to die,
[Db] for the land [Ab] of our birth, [Db] though [Ab] we've never [Eb] owned one [Ab] handful of air, _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Db] _ [Ab] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ we're the first
ones to [Db] starve, we're the first [Ab] ones to die, [Db] we're the first ones in line, for [Ab] that pie
in the sky and we're always the last, when the cream is shaved [Db] out, for the worker [Ab] is
working, when the fat cat's [Db] about [Ab] dying, for all of these things, [Bb] the worker has [Ab] done,
[Db] from tilling the fields, [Ab] to carrying the gun, we've been yoked to the plough, [Db] since [Ab] time
first began, [Db] I always [Ab] expected to carry the can. _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ [Ab] _ _ [Eb] _ [Db] _ [Ab] _ _
_ _ _ _ [Db] _ _ _ [Ab] _
_ _ _ Come all ye workers, [Db] you toil [Ab] night and day, [Db] by hand and by brain, to [Ab] earn your pay, who
for centuries long past, [Dbm] for no more than [Ab] your bread [Db] have [Ab] bled, for your countries encountered
your dead in their factories and mills, [Dbm] in the [Ab] shipyards and mines, [Db] we've often been
told to keep up with [Eb] the [Ab] times, but our skills are not needed, [Db] we've streamlined [Ab] the job
[Dbm] and we're sly, [Ab] drool and [Ebm] stopwatch [Db] are blind, they all die, [Ab] but when the sky darkens and
the prospect is war, [Db] who's given a gun and then pushed [Eb] to [Ab] the fore and expected to die,
[Db] for the land [Ab] of our birth, [Db] though [Ab] we've never [Eb] owned one [Ab] handful of air, _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Db] _ [Ab] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ we're the first
ones to [Db] starve, we're the first [Ab] ones to die, [Db] we're the first ones in line, for [Ab] that pie
in the sky and we're always the last, when the cream is shaved [Db] out, for the worker [Ab] is
working, when the fat cat's [Db] about [Ab] dying, for all of these things, [Bb] the worker has [Ab] done,
[Db] from tilling the fields, [Ab] to carrying the gun, we've been yoked to the plough, [Db] since [Ab] time
first began, [Db] I always [Ab] expected to carry the can. _ _ _ _ _
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