No Use Or Him

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[Verse]
C                                  
My father was a big strong man, he 
G                   C
worked hard all his life
He was always in the whisky glass 
     G
and never out of strife
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He called no man his master, and 
  C             Am
very few his friend
     F                             
A proud and stiff-necked man he 
        C               G
was, he’d never bowed nor bend
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But they broke him in the end, 
             C
when they'd no use for him

[Chorus]
C                             
For they took away his job when 
            G               C
they'd no use for him any more
After nearly thirty years they 
 G
kicked him out the door
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But they let him keep his railway 
           C           Am
jacket, overcoat, and cap
        F                          
And a pension of nine bob a week, 
       C            G
he was lucky to get that
          F      C          G    
And they nearly broke his heart, 
                C
when they'd no use for him

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[Verse]
C                              
Now I spent much of my childhood 
   G                 C
days up in that signal box
High in my father's castle, twenty 
G
feet above the tracks
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And crash would go the signals as he
C
 flicked them with his hand
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And the mighty cars of steam and 
       C                      G
steel would stop at his command
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And oh, but it was grand, when 
         C
they had a use for him

[Chorus]
C                             
But they took away his job when 
           G               C
they'd no use for him any more
After nearly thirty years they 
 G
kicked him out the door
         F                       
But they let him keep his railway 
           C           Am
jacket, overcoat, and cap
        F                          
And a pension of nine bob a week, 
       C            G
he was lucky to get that
          F      C          G    
And they nearly broke his heart, 
                C
when they'd no use for him

[Verse]
C                                 
When you're fifty-five years old 
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and youre looking for some work
Nobody wants to know your face 
G
no-one gives you a start
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So I watched him growing older and
      C             Am
 more bitter every day
     F                             
As his pride and self-respect, well
  C                G
 they slowly drain away
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There was nothing I could say - 
            C
they had no use for him

[Chorus]
C                             
For they took away his job when 
            G               C
they'd no use for him any more
After nearly thirty years they 
 G
kicked him out the door
         F                       
But they let him keep his railway 
           C           Am
jacket, overcoat, and cap
        F                          
And a pension of nine bob a week, 
       C            G
he was lucky to get that
          F      C          G    
And they nearly broke his heart, 
                C
when they'd no use for him
F     C          G           G 
Yes I know they broke his heart
                  C
 when they'd no use for him.