Killing Floor chords by Redgum

Chords with lyrics

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

Difficulty: Novice

Redgum - Killing Floor
I'm not goin to mark verse/chorus exe, I will just space for the stanzas (?)
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E minorEm               G+G
Joe spoke no english but he had a dream
    A augmentedA            G+G
And he saved up most of his pay
E minorEm           G+G
To bring his wife and six kids from Lebanon
    G+G    D MajorD   A augmentedA
And settle down here to stay

E minorEm               G+G
You could feel the prison of his loneliness
    A augmentedA        G+G
He wouldn't see them for years
    E minorEm           G+G
He kept brandy behind the compressed air tanks
    G+G        D MajorD       A augmentedA
And he gulped it when the coast was clear

E minorEm           G+G
Nick the Greek collected tropical fish
A augmentedA            G+G
Had to be a character too
E minorEm               G+G
Smuggled in Pirhana just to break the law
    G+G    D MajorD   A augmentedA
And he fed them on kangaroo

E minorEm           G+G
Bob's pride was his handlebar moustache
A augmentedA            G+G
Said he still combed out sand
E minorEm           G+G
Pushed a tank through the Sahara desert
    G+G        D MajorD   A augmentedA
So they made him the leading hand

E minorEm               G+G
And the summer night shifts were long and cool
A augmentedA            G+G
Charlie chain smoked cigars
E minorEm           G+G
David sweated in his speckled paint mask
    G+G    D MajorD   A augmentedA
As he gazed out at the stars

E minorEm           G+G
Crazy Charlie was a Yugoslav
    A augmentedA            G+G
His old straight eight Chevy could move
    E minorEm           G+G
His ambition was to live on a hippie commune
        G+G    D MajorD   A augmentedA
When Dave told him about free love

E minorEm               G+G
Fred had been a farmer and a heavyweight champ
A augmentedA            G+G
Hands like a stump jump plough
E minorEm           G+G
Moved the earth with a thrust of his arms
        G+G    D MajorD   A augmentedA
He was loading on the paint line now

    E minorEm           G+G
And the boys made a noise every Friday night
    A augmentedA        G+G
At the bar of the Hilton Hotel
E minorEm           G+G
Downing pints and chewing the fat
        G+G    D MajorD   A augmentedA
Till the ten o'clock closing bell

    E minorEm           G+G
It was only rumour til the foreman came
    A augmentedA            G+G
And hiding his shame with a cough
    E minorEm               G+G
He said they're cutting back down to one shift now
    G+G        D MajorD   A augmentedA
They're gonna have to lay you off

E minorEm           G+G
Joe held his gaze and gulped a brandy
    A augmentedA        G+G
And spat it out at his feet
E minorEm           G+G
Bob stood bolt still looking thunderstruck
    G+G    D MajorD   A augmentedA
Nick swore for an hour in Greek

    E minorEm           G+G
Their anger was spent in a rush of fire
    A augmentedA        G+G
And smouldered out of mind
E minorEm               G+G
When they shook hands on that last grey day
    G+G    D MajorD   A augmentedA
Each was in his way resigned

    E minorEm       G+G
Then a few days later I saw old Joe
A augmentedA            G+G
Looking like he'd aged ten years
E minorEm           G+G
Drunk on the tiles at the Stag Hotel
    G+G        D MajorD   A augmentedA
And he couldn't hold back the tears

E minorEm                   G+G
Fred had talked of his grueling heavyweight bouts
    A augmentedA        G+G
I remembered what he'd said
    E minorEm           G+G
There's no giving up on that killing floor
G+G        D MajorD   A augmentedA
If you don't fight you're dead

    E minorEm               G+G
If you work with your hands for your livelihood
    A augmentedA            G+G
Some day you might have to choose
E minorEm               G+G
When the class war rages on the factory floor
G+G        D MajorD   A augmentedA
If you don't fight you lose
If you don't fight you loose...