Never Cross A Picket Line chords by Billy Bragg

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Key: G

Difficulty: Novice

Verse 1:
G
Five hundred men sacked for refusing
C            D      G      D
to ever cross a picket line
G          Em       G
The voices down the ages warning
C             D      Em
Never cross a picket line!
C                      D      G     C G   C D Em   C G
you must never cross a picket line!

Verse 2:
G
Two years gone by but still they never
C            D      G      D
ever cross a picket line
G          Em       G
With their wives and children they stand together
C             D      Em
Never cross a picket line!
C                      D      G
you must never cross a picket line!


Chorus:
G
Look away, look away
G              C       G
look away out west to San Francisco

Look away, look away
G              C        G
look away down south to Sydney Harbour
C         D            Em
where the dockers have organised
C                      D      G
the world's longest picket line


Verse 3:
G
Technically this is an illegal strike
C            D       G
Never cross a picket line!
G
But technically workers have no rights
C             D      Em
Never cross a picket line!
C                      D      G     C G   C Em   C G
You must never cross a picket line!


Verse 4:
G
Oh, I want to live in a brand new Britain
C            D       G
Never cross a picket line!
G
Where workers rights are enshrined and written
C             D      Em
Never cross a picket line!
C                      D      G
You must never cross a picket line!


Chorus:
G
Look away, look away
G             D       G
Look away out west to San Diego
G
Look away, look away
G             D       G
Look away out east to far Osaka
C         D            Em
where the dockers have organised
C                      D      G
the world's longest picket line


Verse 5:
G
The Tories are gone but there's no improvement
C            D       G
Never cross a picket line!
G
Now where is the might of the Labour movement
C             D      Em
Never cross a picket line!
C                      D      G     C D G   C D Em   C D G
You must never cross a picket line!


Chorus:
G
Look away, look away,
G
Look away down south to Auckland City
G
Look away, look away
G
Look away out west to old Vancouver
C         D            Em
where the dockers have organised
C                      D      G
the world's longest picket line

C         D            Em
Where the dockers have realised:
C                      D      G
You must never cross a picket line!