Workers Song

G       C      D  G  (3X)

[VERSE 1]
      G                  C              G
Come all you workers who toil night and day
   C                               D
By hand and by brain, to earn your pay
        G                           C              G
Who for centuries long past, for no more than your bread
C                  G             D            G
Have bled for your countries and counted your dead

[VERSE 2]
       G                           C             G
In the factories and mills, in the shipyards and mines
      C                                   D
We've often been told to keep up with the times
        G                              C               G
For our skills are not needed, they've streamlined the job
         C              G              D               G
And with slide rule and stopwatch, our pride they have robbed, Aye

[VERSE 3]
    G                            C           G
But when the sky darkens and the prospect is war
      C                                    D
Who's given the gun and then pushed to the fore
    G                       C           G
And expected to die for the land of our birth
       C           G         D          G
Though we've never owned one handful of earth

[INSTUMENTAL]
G       C      D  G  (2X)

[CHORUS]
          G                               C             G
We're the first ones to starve, we're the first ones to die
          C                                      D
We're the first ones in line for that pie in the sky
          G                        C               G
And we're always the last when the cream is shared out
        C         G                D         G
For the worker is working when the fat cat's about, Aye

[VERSE 4]
    G                       C          G
And all of these things the worker has done
     C                                  D
From tilling the fields to carrying the gun
           G                       C          G
We've been yoked to the plow since time first began
      C      G           D         G
I had always expected to carry the can