Broke Chords

♫ Intro: G ♫ Verse: G Sixteen hour days C Overworked and underpaid G It's just a day in the life G* Of my old man's old man G If there's one thing I've learned C It's whatcha make is whatcha earn G And you stick it out G Without sticking out your hand C G Getting by on getting by G* It ain't no joke, no C G We got a name for things 'round here that don't work N.C. Broke

G* ♫ Verse: G If we fell on hard times C Well, I'd spend my last dime G Makin' sure G I kept my family fed G Yet some old, poor folks will choose C To blow it all on booze G But half the time it's that fool G Who ends up with half my check ♫ Chorus: G Too much month at the end of your money C Is just a day in the life of a man from the country G G Breaking your back, working your muscles to the bone, bone, bone G We don't live off another man's dollar C Just sweat and red dirt stained on a blue collar G Our nine to five, is a five to nine G All day long C G Getting by on getting by G* It ain't no joke, no C G We got a name for things 'round here that don't work N.C. Broke ♫ Solo: G G C G ♫ Bridge: C G G It ain't much of a life if you live that life for free C G G Sitting around all day never sat quite right with me ♫ Chorus: G Too much month at the end of your money C Is just a day in the life of a man from the country G G Breaking your back, working your muscles to the bone, bone, bone G We don't live off another man's dollar C Just sweat and red dirt stained on a blue collar G Our nine to five, is a five to nine G All day long C G Getting by on getting by G* It ain't no joke, no C G We got a name for things 'round here that don't work N.C. Broke ♫ Outro: G* Broke G G* - hammer on the C string