We Have Fed You All For 1000 Years chords by Willi Carlisle

• Capo on 3rd
• Difficulty: Beginner

Key: F

Intro:

D   A  Bm G D


Verse 1:
D                         G        A
We have fed you all for a thousand years
        Bm      G       D
And you hail us still unfed
                                          A
Though there's never a dollar of all your wealth
    Bm        G        D
But marks the workers' dead
        G                   D
We have yielded our best to give you rest
        G              A
And you lie on crimson wool
       D                     G        A
And if blood be the price of all your wealth
     Bm           G       D
Good God! We have paid in full!

Instrumental Break:
D    A  Bm G D


Verse 2:
D                                G       A
Cause there's never a mine blown skyward now
          Bm      G        D
But we're buried alive for you
                             G         A
There's never a wreck drifts shoreward now
    Bm         G       D
But we are its ghastly crew
         G                      D
Come and reckon our dead by the forges red
        G                  A
And the factories where we spin
   D                          G      A
If blood be the price of your cursed wealth
     Bm           G       D
Good God! We have paid it in!


Instrumental Break:
D    A  Bm G D   G A
Bm G D  G  D  G  A
D  G D A   Bm G D


Verse 3:
D                         G        A
We have fed you all for a thousand years -
    Bm           G         D
For that was our doom, you know;
                                          A
From the days when you chained us in your fields
       Bm          G     D
To the strike of a week ago
         G                    D
You have taken our lives, our husbands and wives
G                    A
Told it's your legal share
       D                          G      A
But if blood be the price of your lawful wealth
     Bm           G         D
Good God! We have bought it fair!
     Em           A         D
Good God! We have bought it fair!