Pound A Week Rise chords by Siobhan Miller

Chords with lyrics

• Capo on 3rd

Key: C minorCm

🎸 Verse 1:
 A minorAm                    DmDm
Come all you colliers who work down the mine
    A minorAm                   E minorEm
From Scotland to South Wales, from Teesdale to Tyne
   A minorAm                DmDm
I'll sing you a song of the pound a week rise
     A minorAm                G+G   A minorAm
And the men who were fooled by the government's lies


🎸 Verse 2:
  A minorAm               DmDm
In nineteen and sixty a few years ago
  A minorAm                    E minorEm
The mineworkers' leaders to Lord Robens did go
 A minorAm                       DmDm
Sayin' "We work very hard, every day we risk our lives
    A minorAm                 G+G  A minorAm
And we ask you here and now for a pound a week rise."

🎸 Chorus:
     A minorAm
And it's down you go, down below
Jack
             DmDm
Where you never see the skies
      A minorAm
And you're workin' in a dungeon
         G+G  A minorAm
For your pound a week rise


🎸 Verse 3:
   A minorAm                    DmDm
Well up spoke Lord Robens and he made this decree
    A minorAm                   E minorEm
"When the output rises, then with you I will agree
   A minorAm                DmDm
I'll raise up all your wages
I'll give to you fair pay
  A minorAm                     E minorEm
For I was once a miner and I worked hard in my day"


🎸 Chorus:
     A minorAm
And it's down you go, down below
Jack
             DmDm
Where you never see the skies
      A minorAm
And you're workin' in a dungeon
         G+G  A minorAm
For your pound a week rise

🎸 Verse 4:
   A minorAm                     DmDm
The miners they went home, they worked hard and well
    A minorAm                     E minorEm
Their lungs filled with coal dust in the bosom of hell
  A minorAm                       DmDm
The output rose by fifteen, eighteen percent, and more
   A minorAm                     G+G    A minorAm
And when two years had passed and gone it rose about a score


🎸 Verse 5:
   A minorAm                     DmDm
The miners, they went to get their hard-earned prize
   A minorAm                       E minorEm
They went to ask Lord Robens for their pound a week rise
 A minorAm                         DmDm
Robens wouldn't give a pound, he wouldn't give ten bob
  A minorAm                          E minorEm
He gave 'em seven and six and said now "Get back to your jobs!"


🎸 Chorus:
     A minorAm
And it's down you go, down below
Jack
             DmDm
Where you never see the skies
      A minorAm
And you're workin' in a dungeon
         G+G  A minorAm
For your pound a week rise

🎸 Interlude:
A minorAm DmDm A minorAm E minorEm A minorAm DmDm A minorAm


🎸 Verse 6:
  A minorAm                   DmDm
So come all you colliers, take heed what I say
 A minorAm                           E minorEm
Don't believe Lord Robens when he says he'll give fair pay
    A minorAm                    DmDm
He'll tell you to work hard and make the output rise
      A minorAm             G+G     A minorAm
You'll get pie in the sky instead of a one pound rise


🎸 Chorus:
     A minorAm
And it's down you go, down below
Jack
             DmDm
Where you never see the skies
      A minorAm
And you're workin' in a dungeon
         G+G  A minorAm
For your pound a week rise


🎸 Chorus:
     A minorAm
And it's down you go, down below
Jack
             DmDm
Where you never see the skies
      A minorAm
And you're workin' in a dungeon
         G+G  A minorAm
For your pound a week rise