We Have Fed You All For 1000 Years Chords

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!