No Use Or Him chords by Eric Bogle

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Intro:
C majorC G+G C majorC G+G FF C majorC G+G FF C majorC A minorAm FF C majorC G+G C majorC

Verse:
C majorC                 G+G          C majorC
My father was a big strong man, he worked hard all his life
                    G+G
He was always in the whisky glass and never out of strife
  FF               C majorC       A minorAm
He called no man his master, and very few his friend
   FF                   C majorC        G+G
A augmentedA proud and stiff-necked man he was, he’d never bowed nor bend
     FF     C majorC    G+G         C majorC
But they broke him in the end, when they'd no use for him

Chorus:
C majorC                     G+G        C majorC
For they took away his job when they'd no use for him any more
                G+G
After nearly thirty years they kicked him out the door
     FF                 C majorC      A minorAm
But they let him keep his railway jacket, overcoat, and cap
    FF                 C majorC      G+G
And a pension of nine bob a week, he was lucky to get that
     FF   C majorC     G+G          C majorC
And they nearly broke his heart, when they'd no use for him

Verse:
C majorC                 G+G         C majorC
Now I spent much of my childhood days up in that signal box
                  G+G
High in my father's castle, twenty feet above the tracks
   FF              C majorC
And crash would go the signals as he flicked them with his hand
    FF               C majorC           G+G
And the mighty cars of steam and steel would stop at his command
  FF    C majorC    G+G           C majorC
And oh, but it was grand, when they had a use for him

Chorus:
C majorC                    G+G        C majorC
But they took away his job when they'd no use for him any more
                G+G
After nearly thirty years they kicked him out the door
     FF                 C majorC      A minorAm
But they let him keep his railway jacket, overcoat, and cap
    FF                 C majorC      G+G
And a pension of nine bob a week, he was lucky to get that
     FF   C majorC     G+G          C majorC
And they nearly broke his heart, when they'd no use for him

Verse:
C majorC                 G+G            C majorC
When you're fifty-five years old and youre looking for some work
                G+G
Nobody wants to know your face no-one gives you a start
FF                    C majorC       A minorAm
So I watched him growing older and more bitter every day
   FF                C majorC        G+G
As his pride and self-respect, well they slowly drain away
     FF    C majorC    G+G         C majorC
There was nothing I could say - they had no use for him

Chorus:
C majorC                     G+G        C majorC
For they took away his job when they'd no use for him any more
                G+G
After nearly thirty years they kicked him out the door
     FF                 C majorC      A minorAm
But they let him keep his railway jacket, overcoat, and cap
    FF                 C majorC      G+G
And a pension of nine bob a week, he was lucky to get that
     FF   C majorC     G+G          C majorC
And they nearly broke his heart, when they'd no use for him
FF   C majorC     G+G      G+G          C majorC
Yes I know they broke his heart when they'd no use for him.