Workers Song
Dropkick Murphys
Band: Dropkick Murphys Song: Worker’s Song Album: Blackout Tabber: *= 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: Yeah this one’s for the workers who toil night and day By hand and by brain to earn your pay For centuries long past for no more than your bread Have bled for your countries and counted your dead Intro x1 Verse 2: In the factories and mills in the shipyards and mines We’ve often been told to keep up with the times 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: And when the sky darkens and the prospect is war Who’s given the gun and then pushed to the fore (after this a Bb chord is And expected to die for the land of our birth Though we’ve never owned one lousy handful of earth Chorus x1 Solo: B-------9----11-11-11-11-11-11-13-13b15----13-11-13b-11--| G--8-10--------------------------------------------------| --------------------------------------------------------| --------------------------------------------------------| --------------------------------------------------------| 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: And all of these things the worker has done From tilling the fields to carrying the gun We’ve been yoked to the plow since time first began And always expected to carry the can - That’s it! For suggestions corrections and requests email me: