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
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