Blue Collar Man

From: Dave Mosley
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 95 09:58:00 PST


ALBUM: Pieces of Eight
MANF : A&M  CD3224


A line of X's stand for a muted 
strum, in a vain attempt to
represent rhythm.

The keyboard intro can be simulated 
(and is later played):

                                        (Guitar 1)
|--------------------------------
|--7-7-7-7---10---7-7-7-7----12--
|*-7-7-7-7---10---7-7-7-7----12--
|*-7-7-7-7---10---7-7-7-7----12--
|--------------------------------
|--------------------------------
||-----|--------------------| 
||10---|--------------------| 
||10--*|-----------------2--| 
||10--*|-------0-3-2-0---0--| 
||-----|-0-1-3---------3----| 
||-----|--------------------| 


                                         (Guitar 2)
                                  
 |    |--------------------| 
 |    |--------------------| 
 |    |-------7-10-9-7---7-| 
 |    |-7-8-10---------10--| 
 |    |--------------------| 
 |    |--------------------| 


[verse]
  D                  G       Bb   
|--------------------------------
|--------------------------------
|-7--x--7--7--x--x------------3--
|-7--x--7--7--x--x------------3--
|-5--x--5--5--x--x---5-x-5-5--1--
|--------------------3-x-3-3-----
  C                D
||-----------------------------------| 
||-----------------------------------| 
||5--x--x--5--x--x--7--7-------------| 
||5--x--x--5--x--x--7--7-------------| 
||3--x--x--3--x--x--5--5-------0--3--| 
||-----------------------------------| 

 Give me a job, give me security.   
give me a chance to survive

 My mother an father, my wife and my
 friends  I see them laugh in my 
face


  D                  G       Bb   
|--------------------------------
|--------------------------------
|-7--x--7--7--x--x------------3--
|-7--x--7--7--x--x------------3--
|-5--x--5--5--x--x---5-x-5-5--1--
|--------------------3-x-3-3-----
  C          B  Bb A
||-----------------------------------| 
||-----------------------------------| 
||5--5--x--5--4--3--2----------------| 
||5--5--x--5--4--3--2----------------| 
||3--3--x--3--2--1--0----------------| 
||----------------------3--1--0------| 

 I'm just a poor soul in the 
unemployement line, my God I'm 
hardly alive

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 But I've got the power, and I've 
got the will - I'm not a charity 
case.
I'll take those

|---------------------------------
|---------------------------------
|--5---7-------5---------7------3-
|--7---8-------5---------7------3-
|-------------------------------1-
|---------------------------------
||-------------------------| 
||-------------------------| 
||--------5----5/7--7-7-7--| 
||--------5----5/7--7-7-7--| 
||--------3----3/5--5-5-5--| 
||-------------------------| 

  Long nights, impossible odds. 
Keepin my eye on the keyhole. If it 
takes

|---------------------------------
|---------------------------------
|--5---7-------5---------7--------
|--7---8-------5---------7--------
|---------------------------------
|---------------------------------
||-----------------------------| 
||-----------------------------| 
||---------------------------2-| 
||-----------0-3--2---0------0-| 
||--0--1-3---------------3-----| 
||-----------------------------| 

  All night to be just what I am   
I'm gonna be a blue collar man


Once more thru the keyboard riff, 
then thru the verse again.


Make me an offer, that I can't 
refuse.
Make me a respectable man.
This is my last time in the 
unemployement line,
so like it or not I'll take those...

then a muted tacit on D5, C5, Bb5, 
and A:

   D5
||--------------------------------------------------|
||--------------------------------------------------|
||*-------------------------------------------------|
||*-7-x-x-7-x-x-7-x-x-7-x-x-7-x-x-7-x-x-7-x-x-7-x-x-|
||--5-x-x-5-x-x-5-x-x-5-x-x-5-x-x-5-x-x-5-x-x-5-x-x-|
||--------------------------------------------------|

  ...man.               Keepin my 
mind on a

  Paradise.             Can it be 
all I

  C5
|---------------------------------
|---------------------------------
|---------------------------------
|-5-x-x-5-x-x-5-x-x-5-x-x-5-x-x-5-
|-3-x-x-3-x-x-3-x-x-3-x-x-3-x-x-3-
|---------------------------------
||----------------| 
||----------------| 
||----------------| 
||x-x-5-x-x-5-x-x-| 
||x-x-3-x-x-3-x-x-| 
||----------------| 

  better life.                      
      Where

  heard it was?                     
      I

  Bb5
|---------------------------------
|---------------------------------
|---------------------------------
|-3-x-x-3-x-x-3-x-x-3-x-x-3-x-x-3-
|-1-x-x-1-x-x-1-x-x-1-x-x-1-x-x-1-
|---------------------------------
||----------------| 
||----------------| 
||----------------| 
||x-x-3-x-x-3-x-x-| 
||x-x-1-x-x-1-x-x-| 
||----------------| 

  happiness,              is only a 
heartbeat

  close my eyes,          and maybe 
I'm already


  A               first time           second time
|---------------------------||---
|---------------------------||---
|---------------------------||---
|-2-2-----------------------||-2-
|-0-0-0-/3-1-/5-3-/7-5-/8-7-||-0-
|---------------------------||---
||------------------| 
||------------------| 
||------------------| 
||2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2---| 
||0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0---| 
||------------------| 

  away.

                              there.


solo and repeat.