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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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