Pound A Week Rise chords by Siobhan Miller

• Capo on 3rd

Key: Cm

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



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

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


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


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


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


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


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

🎸 Interlude:
Am Dm Am Em Am Dm Am


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


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


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