Misc Traditional – Celebrated Working Man (Guitar)

          D                            Bm
Now I’m a celebrated working-man, from work I never shirk,

      G                       D        G       E       A
I can hew more coals than any man from Glasgow down to York;

    D                                Bm
And if you like to see my style then call around on me,

     G                E            A   D
When I’ve had several beers in the bar-room.

       D                                 Bm
In the bar-room, in the bar-room, that’s where we congregate,

   G                   D                  G      E        A
To drill the holes and fill the coals and shovel back the slate;

    D                  A         Bm
And for to do a job of work, oh, I am never late,

       G                 E            A   D
That’s providing that we do it in the bar-room.

      D                           Bm
I can judge a shot of powder to a sixteenth of a grain,

      G                D               G     E          A
I can fill my eighteen tubs though the water falls like rain,

    D                            Bm
And if you like to see me in the perpendicular vein,

     G                E              A   D
It’s when I’m setting timbers in the bar-room.

       D                                 Bm
In the bar-room, in the bar-room, that’s where we congregate,

   G                   D                  G      E        A
To drill the holes and fill the coals and shovel back the slate;

    D                  A         Bm
And for to do a job of work, oh, I am never late,

       G                 E            A   D
That’s providing that we do it in the bar-room.

   D                      Bm
At putting I’m a dandy, I hope you will agree,

    G                D              G        E        A
And gannin along the gannin-board I make the chummins flee

     D                                Bm
Your kelly sweeps and back-ower turns they never bother me,

         G              E              A   D
When I’m sitting on the limmers in the bar-room.

       D                                 Bm
In the bar-room, in the bar-room, that’s where we congregate,

   G                   D                  G      E        A
To drill the holes and fill the coals and shovel back the slate;

    D                  A         Bm
And for to do a job of work, oh, I am never late,

       G                 E            A   D
That’s providing that we do it in the bar-room.

    D                     Bm
And now my song is ended, perhaps we’ll have another,

     G                  D                G       E      A
Now, don’t you fire any shots in here or we will surely smother;

    D                                         Bm
The landlord here would sooner pull beer than go to all the bother

           G      E                  A   D
And to put up the ventilators in the bar-room.