| Dropkick Murphys Song: Worker's Song
 Album: Blackout
 Tabber: [email protected]
 
 *= 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
 Eb                Bb             F           Bb
 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
 Eb             Bb             F               Bb
 And with slide rule and stopwatch, our pride they have robbed
 
 Chorus: (with intro in the background)
 Bb                              Eb            Bb
 We're the first ones to starve, we're the first ones to die
 Eb                          F
 The first ones in line for that pie in the sky
 Bb                       Eb              Bb
 And we're always the last when the cream is shared out
 Eb        Bb               F         Bb
 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
 
 That's it! For suggestions, corrections, and requests, email me:
 [email protected]
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