Workers Song

INTRO (bagpipes): A D A D A E A

VERSE 1:
      A                            
Yeah, this one's for the workers 
  D              A
who toil night and day
   D                  E
By hand and by brain, to earn your 
pay
        A                          
Who for centuries long past, for no
 D              A
 more than your bread
D                  A             
Have bled for your countries and 
E            A
counted your dead

BDA K (INTRO): A D A D A E A

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

CHORUS:
          A                    
We're the first ones to starve, 
           D             A
we're the first ones to die
    D                           E
The first ones in line for that pie 
in the sky
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          A                        
And we're always the last when the 
D               A
cream is shared out
        D         A                
For the worker is working when the 
E         A
fat cat's about

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

CHORUS:
          A                    
We're the first ones to starve, 
           D             A
we're the first ones to die
    D                           E
The first ones in line for that pie 
in the sky
          A                        
And we're always the last when the 
D                A
creams is shared out
        D         A                
For the worker is working when the 
E          A
fat cat's about

G  O: D A D A D D E

BDA K (INTRO): A D A D A E A

CHORUS:
          A                    
We're the first ones to starve, 
           D             A
we're the first ones to die
    D                           E
The first ones in line for that pie 
in the sky
          A                        
And we're always the last when the 
D               A
cream is shared out
        D         A                
For the worker is working when the 
E          A
fat cat's about

CHORUS:
          A                    
We're the first ones to starve, 
           D             A
we're the first ones to die
    D                           E
The first ones in line for that pie 
in the sky
          A                        
And we're always the last when the 
D               A
cream is shared out
        D         A                
For the worker is working when the 
E          A
fat cat's about

VERSE 4:
    A                       D     
And all of these things the worker
     A
 has done
     D                     E
From tilling the fields to carrying 
the gun
           A                       
We've been yoked to the plow since 
D          A
time first began
    D      A        E            A
And always expected to carry the can