Chords for Dick Nolan, The Unemployment Song
Tempo:
98.45 bpm
Chords used:
C#
G#
F#
D#
A#m
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
[C#] [G#] [C#]
We're two weather-beaten [F#] old [C#] Newfoundland fishermen, sometimes we smile and sometimes [G#] we frown.
[C#] But you will agree [D#] from what [C#] you can see, a fisherman's life has its ups and its downs.
[F#] But now we are [C#] facing a wonderful future, [D#] gone are the winters we've [G#] always endured.
For [A#m] our unemployment [D#] is now for enjoyment, [C#] come April the 1st we [G#] will all [C#] be insured.
The Fisheries Council [G#] of [C#] Canada said they'd make all our hardships [A#m] a thing [G#] of the past.
[C#] The Insurance Commission [F#] has [C#] improved our condition, it's taken them years but they've done it at last.
We [F#] fishermen now [C#] have a newly found hobby, [F#] makes us feel just [C#] like two [G#] juvenile scams.
For [C#] though we're not [F#] schoolboys, we bow to [C#] the rule boys, so we've begun [G#] our [C#] collection of stamps.
[G#] [C#]
[G#] [C#] We're paid by the rating [F#] of our weekly [C#] catch, and with 20 weeks work [D#] we'll [G#] be in the clear.
[C#] Our benefit starts and we'll be men of hearts, sit back and do [G#] nothing for the rest [C#] of the year.
[C] For semi-dry [C#] codfish we don't get good rating, [C] but extra hard dry ones [C#] bring [G#] more increment.
[C#] So though we're defaulting, [D#] we're [C#] giving up salting, curing our fish [G#] now with North Star [C#] cement.
[F#] [C#]
[G#] [D#] [C#] Now we'll be [F#] able to fish at [C#] our leisure, one good haul a week and that will [G#] be that.
[C#] So when fish start playing, [F#] to them [C#] we'll be saying, stay where you do till I comes where you're at.
[F#] Now if in the future [C#] you should go a squidding, [F#] you'll find a queer spectacle [C#] [G#] there I'll be bound.
[C#] They'll sit by their jiggers, [F#] all adding [C#] up figures, licking their stamps [G#] on the [D#] squid jigging [C#] ground.
[C#] Licking their [G#] stamps on the squid [C#] jigging ground.
We're two weather-beaten [F#] old [C#] Newfoundland fishermen, sometimes we smile and sometimes [G#] we frown.
[C#] But you will agree [D#] from what [C#] you can see, a fisherman's life has its ups and its downs.
[F#] But now we are [C#] facing a wonderful future, [D#] gone are the winters we've [G#] always endured.
For [A#m] our unemployment [D#] is now for enjoyment, [C#] come April the 1st we [G#] will all [C#] be insured.
The Fisheries Council [G#] of [C#] Canada said they'd make all our hardships [A#m] a thing [G#] of the past.
[C#] The Insurance Commission [F#] has [C#] improved our condition, it's taken them years but they've done it at last.
We [F#] fishermen now [C#] have a newly found hobby, [F#] makes us feel just [C#] like two [G#] juvenile scams.
For [C#] though we're not [F#] schoolboys, we bow to [C#] the rule boys, so we've begun [G#] our [C#] collection of stamps.
[G#] [C#]
[G#] [C#] We're paid by the rating [F#] of our weekly [C#] catch, and with 20 weeks work [D#] we'll [G#] be in the clear.
[C#] Our benefit starts and we'll be men of hearts, sit back and do [G#] nothing for the rest [C#] of the year.
[C] For semi-dry [C#] codfish we don't get good rating, [C] but extra hard dry ones [C#] bring [G#] more increment.
[C#] So though we're defaulting, [D#] we're [C#] giving up salting, curing our fish [G#] now with North Star [C#] cement.
[F#] [C#]
[G#] [D#] [C#] Now we'll be [F#] able to fish at [C#] our leisure, one good haul a week and that will [G#] be that.
[C#] So when fish start playing, [F#] to them [C#] we'll be saying, stay where you do till I comes where you're at.
[F#] Now if in the future [C#] you should go a squidding, [F#] you'll find a queer spectacle [C#] [G#] there I'll be bound.
[C#] They'll sit by their jiggers, [F#] all adding [C#] up figures, licking their stamps [G#] on the [D#] squid jigging [C#] ground.
[C#] Licking their [G#] stamps on the squid [C#] jigging ground.
Key:
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G#
F#
D#
A#m
C#
G#
F#
_ [C#] _ _ _ [G#] _ _ [C#] _ _
We're two weather-beaten [F#] old [C#] Newfoundland fishermen, sometimes we smile and sometimes [G#] we frown.
[C#] But you will agree [D#] from what [C#] you can see, a fisherman's life has its ups and its downs.
[F#] But now we are [C#] facing a wonderful future, [D#] gone are the winters we've [G#] always endured.
For [A#m] our unemployment [D#] is now for enjoyment, [C#] come April the 1st we [G#] will all [C#] be insured.
The Fisheries Council [G#] of [C#] Canada said they'd make all our hardships [A#m] a thing [G#] of the past.
[C#] The Insurance Commission [F#] has [C#] improved our condition, it's taken them years but they've done it at last.
We [F#] fishermen now [C#] have a newly found hobby, [F#] makes us feel just [C#] like two [G#] juvenile scams.
For [C#] though we're not [F#] schoolboys, we bow to [C#] the rule boys, so we've begun [G#] our [C#] collection of stamps.
_ _ _ _ [G#] _ _ [C#] _ _
_ _ [G#] _ [C#] _ _ We're paid by the rating [F#] of our weekly [C#] catch, and with 20 weeks work [D#] we'll [G#] be in the clear.
[C#] Our benefit starts and we'll be men of hearts, sit back and do [G#] nothing for the rest [C#] of the year.
[C] For semi-dry [C#] codfish we don't get good rating, [C] but extra hard dry ones [C#] bring [G#] more increment.
_ [C#] So though we're defaulting, [D#] we're [C#] giving up salting, curing our fish [G#] now with North Star [C#] cement.
_ _ _ _ [F#] _ _ [C#] _ _
_ _ [G#] _ [D#] _ [C#] _ _ Now we'll be [F#] able to fish at [C#] our leisure, one good haul a week and that will [G#] be that.
[C#] So when fish start playing, [F#] to them [C#] we'll be saying, stay where you do till I comes where you're at.
[F#] Now if in the future [C#] you should go a squidding, [F#] you'll find a queer spectacle [C#] [G#] there I'll be bound.
[C#] They'll sit by their jiggers, [F#] all adding [C#] up figures, licking their stamps [G#] on the [D#] squid jigging [C#] ground.
_ [C#] Licking their [G#] stamps on the squid [C#] jigging ground. _
We're two weather-beaten [F#] old [C#] Newfoundland fishermen, sometimes we smile and sometimes [G#] we frown.
[C#] But you will agree [D#] from what [C#] you can see, a fisherman's life has its ups and its downs.
[F#] But now we are [C#] facing a wonderful future, [D#] gone are the winters we've [G#] always endured.
For [A#m] our unemployment [D#] is now for enjoyment, [C#] come April the 1st we [G#] will all [C#] be insured.
The Fisheries Council [G#] of [C#] Canada said they'd make all our hardships [A#m] a thing [G#] of the past.
[C#] The Insurance Commission [F#] has [C#] improved our condition, it's taken them years but they've done it at last.
We [F#] fishermen now [C#] have a newly found hobby, [F#] makes us feel just [C#] like two [G#] juvenile scams.
For [C#] though we're not [F#] schoolboys, we bow to [C#] the rule boys, so we've begun [G#] our [C#] collection of stamps.
_ _ _ _ [G#] _ _ [C#] _ _
_ _ [G#] _ [C#] _ _ We're paid by the rating [F#] of our weekly [C#] catch, and with 20 weeks work [D#] we'll [G#] be in the clear.
[C#] Our benefit starts and we'll be men of hearts, sit back and do [G#] nothing for the rest [C#] of the year.
[C] For semi-dry [C#] codfish we don't get good rating, [C] but extra hard dry ones [C#] bring [G#] more increment.
_ [C#] So though we're defaulting, [D#] we're [C#] giving up salting, curing our fish [G#] now with North Star [C#] cement.
_ _ _ _ [F#] _ _ [C#] _ _
_ _ [G#] _ [D#] _ [C#] _ _ Now we'll be [F#] able to fish at [C#] our leisure, one good haul a week and that will [G#] be that.
[C#] So when fish start playing, [F#] to them [C#] we'll be saying, stay where you do till I comes where you're at.
[F#] Now if in the future [C#] you should go a squidding, [F#] you'll find a queer spectacle [C#] [G#] there I'll be bound.
[C#] They'll sit by their jiggers, [F#] all adding [C#] up figures, licking their stamps [G#] on the [D#] squid jigging [C#] ground.
_ [C#] Licking their [G#] stamps on the squid [C#] jigging ground. _