Chords for Gil Scott Heron - Blue Collar

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_ [C] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ [Am] _
_ _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _ [A] _
_ [Am] _ _ _ _ _ I've been down in Pennsylvania, _ [Dm] where [Am] I was working in the mine.
_ _ _ _ _ [Dm] I've been down in Cincinnati, [Am] _ they laid me off the assembly line.
_ _ _ Yeah, [Em] they've got me looking everywhere, [F] but I ain't too proud of [Am] what I find.
_ _ [G] And you can't name where [Am] I've been down, _ _ [Dm] cause there ain't no place I ain't been down.
_ _ [Em] _ [Am] _ _ I was down in Kansas City, _ where even the blues is now.
_ _ _ _ _ _ I've been [Dm] down in New York City, brother, and there ain't no [Am] place to be down.
_ _ _ _ Yeah, [Em] I've been looking at the faces of the children.
_ [F] You see, we're looking [Am] for a higher ground.
_ _ [Em] _ And you can't name [Am] where we've been down, _ _ _ cause there ain't no place we ain't been down.
_ _ [Em] _ _ [Eb] We [D] fell down, somewhere between the cities [Am] and the town.
_ _ _ _ We [D] went down, _ _ _ between the [Am] smiles and the brown.
_ _ _ _ And [F] if they call me in the morning, [Em] I may not [Am] recognize the sound.
_ [Em] [Am] Brother, you can't name where we've been down.
_ _ [Dm] _ There ain't no place [Am] we ain't been down.
_ [B] _ Crazy [D] Eddie. _
[Am] _ _ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ [Am] _
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[Dm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Am] _
_ _ _ _ _ Brother.
[Em] _
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[C] _ _ _ [E] _ _ [Am] _ _ _
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_ _ _ [G] Brother.
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Standing in the shadow, [Dm] _ sure [Am] enough look my hand.
_ _ _ _ I [Dm] see the still grey clouds above me, _ where are they [Am] vanquished? _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Em] Yeah, I've been looking everywhere for [F] peace, but I swear there just [D] ain't none around.
_ [Em] Brother, [Am] you can't name where I've been down.
_ _ There ain't no place I ain't been down.
_ [Em] _ _ [Eb] We [D] fell down, _ _ _ between the [Am] cities and the town.
_ _ _ _ _ [D] Yeah, I've been looking _ _ everywhere for peace, but I swear there just ain't [Am] none around.
_ _ _ _ And [F] if they call me in the morning, [Em] I may not [D] recognize the sound.
_ [Em] Brother, you can't name where [Am] I've been down.
_ _ There ain't no place I ain't been down.
Brother, you [Dm] can't name [Am] _ where I've been down.
[C] You can't name where I've been down.
There ain't [Am] no place I need to go.
There ain't [C] no place I need [Dm] to go.
[Am] You can't name where I've been down.
[C] _ Everybody's seen, [Am] seen that man in the movies.
Seen that man in the movies.
He's a fool to say [B] the least.
[C] He's a fool to say the [F] least.
_ [Am] There ain't no peace [B] around.
[C] There ain't no peace [Am] around.
Everybody's in the [B] room.
[C] You can't name where I've been [F] down.
Seems I've [Am] always been coming [C] down.
There ain't no place I need to go.
[Am] There ain't no where I need to go.
[B] There ain't [C] no place I ain't [Dm] been.
There ain't no place I ain't [Am] been _ [C]
down.
_ _ [Am] _ Ain't been down.
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