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Ballad Of The Carpenter chords by 
Ewan Maccoll
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Intro 1
Am
G
Am
G
Am
G
Am
Em
Am
G
Am
G
E
G
Am
Verse 1
Am
G
Am
Jesus was a working man, a hero, you shall hear,
Em
G
Em
Born in the slums of Bethlehem
Am
G
at the turning of the year
F
E
Am
Yes, the turning of the year
When Jesus was a little
G
Am
at the streets rang with his name
G
Em
For he argued with the older man
Am
and he put them all to shame
F
E
Am
Yes, he put them all to shame
His father, he apprenticed him
G
Am
A carpenter to be
C
G
Em
To plane and drill and work with skill
Am
C
G
In the town of Ga lilee
F
E
Yes, the town of Galilee
Am
He became a roving
G
Am
journeyman,
G
Am
and he wandered far and wide,
G
Em
And he saw how wealth and poverty
Am
C
F
live always side by side,
E
Am
Yes, always side by side.
He said, come all you working men,
G
Am
you farmers and weavers too,
G
If you will only organise,
Em
Am
the world belongs to you.
F
E
Am
Yes, the world belongs to you.
So the fishermen sent two delegates,
G
Am
and the farmers and weavers too,
G
And they formed a working
Am
Em
committee of twelve
Am
C
F
To see the struggle through,
E
yes, to see the struggle through
Am
F
G
Em
G
Am
When the rich men heard
what the carpenter had done
G
Am
To the Roman troops they ran
G
Saying, put this rebel
Em
Jesus down,
Am
C
G
F
he's a menace to God and man,
E
Am
yes, a menace to God and man.
The commander of the occupying troops,
G
Am
he laughed and then he said,
G
There's a cross to spare
Am
Em
on Cal vary Hill,
Am
G
Am
F
by the weekend he'll be dead.
E
Am
Yes, by the weekend he'll be dead.
Now Jesus walked among the poor,
G
Am
for the poor were his own kind.
G
And they wouldn't let the
Em
cops get near enough
Am
G
to take him from behind.
F
E
Am
Yes, to take him from behind
So they hired a man of the traitor's trade
G
Am
And a stool pigeon was he
C
G
And he sold his brother to
Em
the butcher's men
Am
G
Am
F
For a fistful of silver money
E
Am
A fistful of money
Em
Am
Jesus lay in the prison cell
G
Am
and they beat him and offered him bribes to
G
Am
Em
desert the cause of his own poor folk
Am
C
G
Am
and work for the rich man's tribe,
F
E
Am
yes, work for the rich man's
The sweat stood out upon his brow,
G
Am
And the blood was in his eye,
G
And they nailed his body
Em
to the Roman cross,
Am
And they laughed as they
G
Am
F
watched him die,
E
Yes, they laughed as they
Am
watched him die.
G
Two thousand years have
Am
passed and gone,
G
Am
And many a hero too,
C
G
Em
And the dream of this poor carpenter
Am
G
F
At last it is coming true,
E
Yes, at last it is coming true.
Am
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