Workers Song

Dropkick Murphys

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Band: Dropkick Murphys

Song: Worker's Song

Album: Blackout

Tabber: clark@theoddmenout.com

*= mute chord

Intro:

Fill Bagpipe Intro

e---------|---------------3----6-----3----6-----------------|
B---------|--6---3----------4----6-----4----6--3-----3------|
G---------|---------5--3-------------------------3-5---5-3--|
D--0------|-------------------------------------------------|
A----3-1--|-------------------------------------------------|
E---------|-------------------------------------------------|

Verse 1:

Bb* Eb* Bb*

Yeah, this one's for the workers who toil night and day

Eb* F*

By hand and by brain, to earn your pay

Bb* Eb* Bb*

For centuries long past for no more than your bread

Have bled for your countries and counted your dead

Intro x1

Verse 2:

Bb* Eb* Bb*

In the factories and mills, in the shipyards and mines

Eb* F*

We've often been told to keep up with the times

Bb* Eb* Bb*

For our skills are not needed, they've streamlined the job

And with slide rule and stopwatch, our pride they have robbed

Chorus: (with intro in the background)

We're the first ones to starve, we're the first ones to die

The first ones in line for that pie in the sky

And we're always the last when the cream is shared out

For the worker is working when the fat cat's about

Verse 3:

Bb* Eb* Bb*

And when the sky darkens and the prospect is war,

Eb* F*

Who's given the gun and then pushed to the fore (after this a Bb chord is

Bb* Eb* Bb* played up an octave)

And expected to die for the land of our birth

Eb* Bb* F* Bb*

Though we've never owned one lousy handful of earth

Chorus x1

Solo:

e------------11-11-11-11-11-11----------11---------------|
B-------9----11-11-11-11-11-11-13-13b15----13-11-13b-11--|
G--8-10--------------------------------------------------|
D--------------------------------------------------------|
A--------------------------------------------------------|
E--------------------------------------------------------|
e----11-11-11-11-11-11----------------------11-11-11-11-11-11--|
B--9-11-11-11-11-11-11--------------------9-11-11-11-11-11-11--|
G-----------------------10--10-10--8-8-8-----------------------|
D------------------------8---8--8--8-8-8-----------------------|
A--------------------------------------------------------------|
E--------------------------------------------------------------|
e----11-11-11-11-11-11--13-13--------------13-13--------------|
B--9-11-11-11-11-11-11--13-13-11----11-10--13-13-11----11-10--|
G--------------------------------10-----------------10--------|
D-------------------------------------------------------------|
A-------------------------------------------------------------|
E-------------------------------------------------------------|

Intro x1

Chorus x2

Outro Verse:

Bb~ Eb~ Bb~

And all of these things the worker has done

Eb~ F~

From tilling the fields to carrying the gun

Bb~ Eb~ Bb~

We've been yoked to the plow since time first began

Eb~ Bb~ F~ Bb

And always expected to carry the can

Bb-Bb