Workers Song chords by Dick Gaughan

Chords with lyrics

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

Tuning seems to be something like up a 1/4 step. On my tuner, I tune to 455 Hz instead of 440 to match the recording.

INTRO:
G+G    C majorC   D MajorD G+G (3X)

VERSE 1:
   G+G         C majorC       G+G
Come all you workers who toil night and day
  C majorC                D MajorD
By hand and by brain, to earn your pay
    G+G              C majorC       G+G
Who for centuries long past, for no more than your bread
C majorC         G+G       D MajorD      G+G
Have bled for your countries and counted your dead

VERSE 2:
    G+G              C majorC       G+G
In the factories and mills, in the shipyards and mines
   C majorC                  D MajorD
We've often been told to keep up with the times
    G+G               C majorC        G+G
For our skills are not needed, they've streamlined the job
     C majorC       G+G       D MajorD        G+G
And with slide rule and stopwatch, our pride they have robbed, Aye

VERSE 3:
  G+G              C majorC      G+G
But when the sky darkens and the prospect is war
   C majorC                  D MajorD
Who's given the gun and then pushed to the fore
  G+G            C majorC      G+G
And expected to die for the land of our birth
    C majorC      G+G     D MajorD     G+G
Though we've never owned one handful of earth

INSTUMENTAL:
G+G    C majorC   D MajorD G+G (2X)

CHORUS:
     G+G                C majorC       G+G
We're the first ones to starve, we're the first ones to die
     C majorC                   D MajorD
We're the first ones in line for that pie in the sky
     G+G            C majorC        G+G
And we're always the last when the cream is shared out
    C majorC     G+G        D MajorD     G+G
For the worker is working when the fat cat's about, Aye

VERSE 4:
  G+G            C majorC     G+G
And all of these things the worker has done
   C majorC           D MajorD
From tilling the fields to carrying the gun
      G+G            C majorC     G+G
We've been yoked to the plow since time first began
   C majorC   G+G      D MajorD     G+G
I had always expected to carry the can

OUTRO:
G+G    C majorC   D MajorD G+G (2X)