Styx – Blue Collar Man Long Nights (Guitar)

Capo 3
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Chords

[Verse 1]
Bm                       Em
Give me a job, give me security

A                         Bm
  Give me a chance to survive

                                 Em
I'm just a poor soul in the unemployment line

A                      F#
  My God, I'm hardly alive
[Verse 2]
Bm                        Em
My mother and father, my wife and my friends

A                        Bm
You see them laugh in my face

                           Em
But I've got the power and I've got the will

A                   F#
  I'm not a charity case
[Chorus]
                Bm   G       A          Bm
I'll take those long nights, impossible odds

  G        A          Bm
Keepin' my eye to the keyhole

            Bm  G          A           Bm
If it takes all that to be just what I am

       G            A           Bm
Well I'm gonna be a blue collar man
[Verse 3]
Bm                    Em
Make me an offer that I can't refuse

A                       Bm
  Make me a respectable man

                                Em
This is my last time in the unemployment line

A               F#
  So like it or not, I'll take those
[Chorus]
Bm   G       A          Bm
Long nights, impossible odds

  G        A          Bm
Keepin' my back to the wall

            Bm  G          A           Bm
If it takes all night to be just what I am

      G            A           Bm
Well I'm gonna be a blue collar man
[Bridge]
                    A
Keepin' my mind on a better life

      G                       Bm
Where happiness is only a heartbeat away

                        A
Paradise can it be all I heard it was

G                                     F#
I close my eyes and maybe I'm already there
[Instrumental] Bm Em A Bm Bm Em A F# Bm Em A Bm Em A F# [Chorus]
F#                 Bm   G       A          Bm
   I'll take those long nights, impossible odds

  G        A          Bm
Keepin' my eye to the keyhole

            Bm  G          A           Bm
If it takes all night to be just what I am

   G          A
I'm gonna be a blue collar

 G        A
Gotta be a blue collar

 G        A            Bm
Gonna be a blue collar man