Dropkick Murphys – Workers Song (Guitar)

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There are TABS on here for the bagpipe parts and the solo, I have just done the chords. INTRO (bagpipes): A D A D A E A VERSE 1:
      A                              D              A
Yeah, this one's for the workers who toil night and day

   D                  E
By hand and by brain, to earn your pay

        A                           D              A
Who for centuries long past, for no more than your bread

D                  A             E            A
Have bled for your countries and counted your dead
BREAK (INTRO): A D A D A E A VERSE 2:
       A                           D             A
In the factories and mills, in the shipyards and mines

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

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

         D              A              E               A
And with slide rule and stopwatch, our pride they have robbed
CHORUS:
          A                               D             A
We're the first ones to starve, we're the first ones to die

    D                           E
The first ones in line for that pie in the sky

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

        D         A                E         A
For the worker is working when the fat cat's about
VERSE 3:
    A                            D           A
And when the sky darkens and the prospect is war

      D                      E
Who's given the gun and then pushed to the fore

    A                       D           A
And expected to die for the land of our birth

             D           A         E          A
Though we've never owned one lousy handful of earth
CHORUS:
          A                               D             A
We're the first ones to starve, we're the first ones to die

    D                           E
The first ones in line for that pie in the sky

          A                        D                A
And we're always the last when the creams is shared out

        D         A                E          A
For the worker is working when the fat cat's about
SOLO: D A D A D D E BREAK (INTRO): A D A D A E A CHORUS:
          A                               D             A
We're the first ones to starve, we're the first ones to die

    D                           E
The first ones in line for that pie in the sky

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

        D         A                E          A
For the worker is working when the fat cat's about
CHORUS:
          A                               D             A
We're the first ones to starve, we're the first ones to die

    D                           E
The first ones in line for that pie in the sky

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

        D         A                E          A
For the worker is working when the fat cat's about
VERSE 4:
    A                       D          A
And all of these things the worker has done

     D                     E
From tilling the fields to carrying the gun

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

    D      A        E            A
And always expected to carry the can