Mary Black – Men Of Worth (Guitar)

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G
Leave the land behind, laddie, better days to find

    C                  G                 Am                 D7
The companies have the money and they'll soon teach you the skills

G
Green fields far away, lads, the forties and the brae

     C           G     Em            D                 G
Be a madman or a roustabout, they'll soon teach you to drill

    D                           C                G
But who will tend me sheep when I'm far o'er the deep?

       C              G                  Am                D7
On the Neptune or the Sea Quest when the snow comes to the hills

G
la la la la lala la la la la laa

         C     G    Em     D            G
la la la la la lala laa la la la la la laaa

G
Leave the fishing trade, lads, there's money to be made

    C                 G                 Am          D7
The hand-line and the Shetland yawl are of a bygone day

G
Come to Aberdeen, lads; sights you've never seen!

     C             G   Em        D           G
Be a welder on the pipeline or a fitter at McBay

    D                             C                G
But when the job is o'er and your boat rots on the shore

    C                  G               Am             D7
How will you feed your family when the companies go away?

G
La la la la lala la la la la laa

    C           G    Em    D            G
La la la la la lala laa la la la la la laaa

        G
There's harbours to be built, lads, rigs to tow and tilt

   C             G               Am            D7
To rest upon the ocean bed, like pylons in the sea

G
Pipelines to be laid and a hundred different trades

          C            G      Em          D                G
That will pay a decent living wage to the likes of you and me

   D                                   C                  G
I know you're men of worth; you're the best that's in the north

    C                 G                Am                    D7
Not men of greed, but men who need the work that's come your way

     G
From Flotta to Kishorn a new industry is born

    C             G     Em      D            G
Now Peterhead and Cromarty will never be the same

   D                                   C                  G
I know you're men of worth; you're the best that's in the north

    C                 G                Am                    D7
Not men of greed, but men who need the work that's come your way

G
La la la la lala la la la la laa

    C           G    Em    D            G
La la la la la lala laa la la la la la laaa