Key: Bb major
Verse 1
when they handed out the heavy jobs?
Jobs with the hammer,
C
G
Who choked in the foundry
C
G
and froze at the fish stock
C
G
Am
D
Eight days in the week
of rock above him
Three -foot seam in the
G
Am
G
powdered rock in his spittle
D
Em
A hundred minutes to the
D
Em
C
Am
D
hour
G
C
Who was there in the far
Pain shapes the question
in bone and muscle
D
C
G
Roots and hides competing,
Am
G
fumbling, groping
Em
D
28 hours to the day
G
C
Who was here in the world
C
G
Am
G
Breathing the hard sharp stink of metal
Em
D
G
C
Five weeks to the month
G
D
C
G
Am
G
Em
D
G
C
Hey you, dog's body,
Who clears up the mess
C
G
He carried the broom,
Am
G
the mop and the bucket
Em
D
Thirty -six months to the year
G
C
Smooth -faced old boy,
C
G
Coached in running by men
Am
G
whose arches had fallen
D
Em
C
Am
D
how to live
C
G
where has Kilroy gone?
C
G
He came this way,
Am
G
he was wearing his number
D
Em
C
D
Did nobody see him pass
Em
D
Did nobody see him pass
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ChordsG D C Am Em
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