Blue Collar Blues chords by Mo Rodgers
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I saw this man on TV
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talking about losing his job
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after 25 years.
Now he was a middle
-aged blue -collar worker,
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and you could sense his pain.
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This was in Chicago,
the home of the blues.
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So I wrote this song for him,
and maybe for you.
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He had a name hard to pronounce
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And a sadness, a source,
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fell right out of his mouth
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When he said his name,
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and you could
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sense his pain
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A blue collar worker
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caught in the shape of a game
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That he cannot explain
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And there ain't much you can do
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When they say your job is through
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He's a white cat with a blue collar
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Can't never lose
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Now he's heard it all before
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The business of buyouts, bailouts
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Means you got to go
No, no, no, no
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They don't need you, no, no
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Now his home is Chicago,
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the home of the blues
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What is his only point?
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Middle -aged white man gonna do, yeah
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So he's off to his favorite bar
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Where he can tell his friends
he don't work no more
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He's a white man with the blues
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With the blue collar blues
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Everybody gets the blues, sometimes
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But what's amazing is that blues
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Will help cure you of the blues
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Blue collar blues
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It can happen to me and you,
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it's a shame, the blues, yes it is,
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the blues, the Blue Combo, Blue
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Blue Collar Blues
Mo Rodgers
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