Millworker chords by Emmylou Harris

Chords with lyrics

• Capo on 3rd
• Difficulty: Intermediate

Key: C majorC

🎸 Verse 1:
    A augmentedA            D MajorD        E MajorE
My grandfather was a sailor, he blew in off the water
  A augmentedA      E MajorE     A augmentedA      E MajorE
My father was a farmer and I, his only daughter
A augmentedA                          E MajorE
Took up with a no-good millworking man from Massachusetts
  A augmentedA           E MajorE    A augmentedA           E MajorE    A augmentedA
Who dies from too much whiskey and leaves me these three faces to feed


🎸 Verse 2:
                    E MajorE
Now millwork ain't easy, millwork ain't hard
A augmentedA         E MajorE        A augmentedA     E MajorE
Millwork, it ain't nothing but an awful boring job
  A augmentedA
I'm waiting for a daydream to take me through the morning
         E MajorE         A augmentedA      E MajorE       A augmentedA
And put me in my coffee break where I can have a sandwich and remember

🎸 Chorus:
     G+G             D/F#D/F#
And it's me and my machine for the rest of the morning
    Dm/F          E MajorE         A augmentedA  E/G# G+G A augmentedA
For the rest of the afternoon, for the rest of my life


🎸 Verse 3:
A augmentedA
Now my mind begins to wander to the days back on the farm
A augmentedA
I can see my father smiling at me swinging on his arm
A augmentedA
I can hear my granddad's stories of the storms out on Lake Erie
A augmentedA
Where vessels and cargos and fortunes and sailor's lives were lost


Guitar 🎸 Solo:
C majorC G/BG/B Bb majorBb Asus4Asus4 A augmentedA G+G
D/F#D/F# B minorBm FF Dm/F E MajorE


🎸 Verse 4:
     A augmentedA
But it's my life has been wasted and I have been the fool
        E7E7       A augmentedA
To let this manufacturer use my body for a tool
                       E MajorE
I can ride home in the evening staring at my hands
A augmentedA       E MajorE       A augmentedA          E MajorE     A augmentedA
Swearing by my sorrow that a young girl ought to stand a better chance


🎸 Chorus:
  G+G              D/F#D/F#     B minorBm
So may I work the mills just as long as I am able
  FF            E MajorE       A augmentedA
And never meet the man whose name is on the label
     G+G             D/F#D/F#
And it's me and my machine for the rest of the morning
       Dm/F     E MajorE           A augmentedA
For the rest of the afternoon, for the rest of my life


🎸 Outro:
G+G D/F#D/F# FF E7E7 A augmentedA G+G
D/F#D/F# D MajorD E MajorE A augmentedA