Misc Musicals – Commentary - Strike (Guitar)

C
When you start negotiations

       F
With integrity and patience

         Bb
And they just cry "Battle stations!"

          C
What’s to like?

C
When you ask a small amount and

       F
Then encounter counter’s counter

        Bb
And the deal is tantamount to

C
"Take a hike"

D
You can’t sit around with your head in the sand

G#
You pull it out, you stand up and

    C
You strike

C
When you hear their lawyers talking

        F
Saying our behavior’s shocking

        Bb
It’s convincing as a cockney

         C
Dick Van Dyke

C
When they leave the town unstable

          F
Then they come back to the table

        Bb
And say "Now we should able-

          C
Kidding ! Psych!"

D
We ask them for bread and get "Let them eat cake"

G#
They figure a stomach ache will break

    C
The strike

Bb
So strike - For all the writers

Eb
Strike -For the living wage

  Fm                   Cm
Until these wrongs are righted

         D             G
We won’t write another page

     F                     C
Wipe off that smile - The style is bile

     D              G
And rage is all the rage

C
As the fall turns into winter

      F
There appears a bunch of splinter

           Bb
Groups who wonder what this Inter-

       C
Net is like

C
While the tide is turning tepid

        F
And the town is feeling trepid-

       Bb
Atious time for us to step up

C
To the mic

D
We’ve got all these dynamite plots to use

G#
It’s time to light the fuse or lose

    C
The strike

Bb
(strike) And lose we did

         Eb
(strike) Impressively

Fm                Cm
Slunk back to our offices

   D          G
Declaring victory

   Fm               C
If you need your residual

D               G
Why did you all agree

C
I’m proud I walked the line

              F
With writers, fans and friends of mine

          Bb                        C
But now I ask what was this finally about?

D
And years from now I’ll tell my tyke

G#
Just what it feels like to strike

     C
.....Out?