Chords with lyrics
♫ Intro:
G+G
♫ Verse:
G+G
Sixteen hour days
C majorC
Overworked and underpaid
G+G
It's just a day in the life
G*
Of my old man's old man
G+G
If there's one thing I've learned
C majorC
It's whatcha make is whatcha earn
G+G
And you stick it out
G+G
Without sticking out your hand
C majorC G+G
Getting by on getting by
G*
It ain't no joke, no
C majorC G+G
We got a name for things 'round here that don't work
N.C.
Broke
G*
♫ Verse:
G+G
If we fell on hard times
C majorC
Well, I'd spend my last dime
G+G
Makin' sure
G+G
I kept my family fed
G+G
Yet some old, poor folks will choose
C majorC
To blow it all on booze
G+G
But half the time it's that fool
G+G
Who ends up with half my check
♫ Chorus:
G+G
Too much month at the end of your money
C majorC
Is just a day in the life of a man from the country
G+G G+G
Breaking your back, working your muscles to the bone, bone, bone
G+G
We don't live off another man's dollar
C majorC
Just sweat and red dirt stained on a blue collar
G+G
Our nine to five, is a five to nine
G+G
All day long
C majorC G+G
Getting by on getting by
G*
It ain't no joke, no
C majorC G+G
We got a name for things 'round here that don't work
N.C.
Broke
♫ Solo:
G+G G MajorG C majorC G+G
♫ Bridge:
C majorC G+G G+G
It ain't much of a life if you live that life for free
C majorC G+G G+G
Sitting around all day never sat quite right with me
♫ Chorus:
G+G
Too much month at the end of your money
C majorC
Is just a day in the life of a man from the country
G+G G+G
Breaking your back, working your muscles to the bone, bone, bone
G+G
We don't live off another man's dollar
C majorC
Just sweat and red dirt stained on a blue collar
G+G
Our nine to five, is a five to nine
G+G
All day long
C majorC G+G
Getting by on getting by
G*
It ain't no joke, no
C majorC G+G
We got a name for things 'round here that don't work
N.C.
Broke
♫ Outro:
G*
Broke
G+G
G* - hammer on the C majorC string