Misc Traditional – The Factory Slave (Guitar)

C                 F
Toiling amid the smoke and clamor,

C               G
from morning to night

C                              F
Deafened by the noise of the wheel and hammer

C            G         C
far from the glad sunlight

                    F
piling up store of wealth for others

C              G
while we grow poor

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Tell me oh suffering toiling brothers

C           G            C
how long shall this endure

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all my life is full of sorrow, welcome seems the grave

C                     F
oh when will freedoms bright tomorrow,

C            G        C
dawn on the factory slave

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often in search of work we wonder,

C          G
hungry we pine

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While wealth we earn our masters squander

C        G       C
Feasting in palace fine.

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Hard to behold the pallid faces,

C            G
of wife and child

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stifled in foal and loathsome places

C                G          C
thoughts fit to drive me while

G                C               F            C    G
all my life is full of sorrow, welcome seems the grave

C                     F
oh when will freedoms bright tomorrow,

C            G        C
dawn on the factory slave

C               F
Hard is the lot of honest labor,,

C            G
Crushed and oppressed

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Where each is taught to rob his neighbor,

C         G       C
Greed steeling every breast.

C                    F
Each has to freedom, air and earth right,

C            G
Such Heaven gave

C                     F
Rich men have robbed us of our birthright,

C          G        C
Landless, a man's a slave

G                C               F            C    G
all my life is full of sorrow, welcome seems the grave

C                     F
oh when will freedoms bright tomorrow,

C            G        C
dawn on the factory slave