Mischief Brew – Lowly Carpenter (Guitar)

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Chords

      D         G
Come labor get ready

    D              Bm
to dance for your bread

   D           G              D
My son, I was once where you stand

          D             G
There's a beast with insatiable

 D          Bm
hunger, its minions

      D            A
Need crafters and skilled

         D
working hands

         D        G           D
Needs a fortress high in the hilltops

    D           G           A
And we are the great chosen crew

    D       G      D       Bm
But I am a lowly carpenter so

 D           A       G
what have I power to do
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   D       G          D          Bm
Oh misery call us to rise up at dawn,

    D            G          D
to turn ‘way as fast as we can

    D          G            D
We may be the mortar that cradles the

Bm        D          A           D
brick but I am just one grain of sand

          D          G
And don't tell me of tossing the

 D            D
Wrenches. It only brings

G             A
pleasure and pain

    D           G     D         Bm
And we are all lowly carpenters so

             D        A
where we're taken is where

        G
we'll remain
|G |A | D|
         D             G
And the masters shall govern with

 D        Bm
unbroken backs

      D            G          D
Look down from the top of the hill

         D               G
You can cry through the night just as

D              Bm
much as you'd like

           D          A         D
There will always be towers to build

                D
I could've been more than some

 G              D
stone dragging vessel

            D
I could be more than their

 G             A
wood cutting slave

    D           G     D         Bm
But we are all lowly carpenters so

 D            A        G
what have we power to change
|G |A | D|
           D             G
And if you can't take no more then

     D         Bm
get out of the way

      D          G          D
For we've got a day to get through

   D           G
We wire their castles,

        D          Bm
their prisons and banks

             G
Build their mansions

      A         D
from cellar to roof

          D            G
We've got hammers and wrenches and

 D
chisels

            D               G
We could destroy any great wall

         A
we come to

    D       G     D        Bm
But I am a lowly carpenter so

 D           A       G
what have I power to do
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