Labour Song chords by Solas

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Intro 1

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Verse 1
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Come all ye gallant miners
Who toil beneath the ground
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Where you risk your neck
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down day and day
F 
With danger it abounds
C 
But our lives are took for granted
They throw us meagre pay
F 
C 
And our belts are getting longer
G 
C 
While our children fade away
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C 
Together we must stand,
F 
Divided we will fall
C 
No more we'll go below,
F 
Let's heed the union's call
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Throw your shovels to the ground,
until we've had our say
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C 
For our lives are worth far more
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C 
F 
C 
G 
than four lousy bucks a day
C 
Where are those court -remainers
who motion all the day
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C 
To judges in their pockets
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they've legalised that day
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They won't ask about your mortgage
or what your children eat
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C 
As they dine with city daddies
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C 
and  bow down to their creed
Don't rise to provocation,
F 
just burn your wrestling cards
C 
We shouldn't need permission
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to toil and labour hard
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For felicity pockets,
rewarded we should be
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C 
For a man who works all day and night
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F 
has earned some dignity
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We'll fight for those who perished
in the fire of 17
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C 
As the company shrugged its shoulders
they went up like gasoline
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C 
Courage worn down to the knuckles
as they waited there to die
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C 
And beside the doorless bulkheads
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the bodies they piled high
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So you think your life will value
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when finally you fall
Having blessed and dug
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for countless days
and given it your all
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C 
For what you pay your widow
won't even bear the cost
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C 
She'll lift you up to Duggan's place
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C 
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to put you in a box
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C 
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Bb 
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I don't believe that wolf,
the so -called Council of Defence
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C 
Their patriotism's twisted,
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their loyalties are bent
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In the shadow of the eagle,
they'll blacklist you and me
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C 
Saying because we love our families,
G 
C 
we don't love our country
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C 
So when you cry for justice,
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Am 
let it be no surprise
G 
When they brand you all as traitors
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and commies in disguise
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They say you're toots and cats,
hordes of the kaisers of Germany
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C 
Where our friends, they swallow bullets,
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so our children can be free.
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So we've got to seal the unions,
we need to close the shop,
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C 
And fight the company suits
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and copper collars up the top.
C 
But it's on the Wall Street dickers,
they'll keep their beady eyes,
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C 
And our cry will fall on deaf ears
G 
as the working miner dies.
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F 
C 
So together we must stand,
F 
boys, divided we will fall
No more we'll go below,
C 
F 
let's heed the Union's call
C 
Throw down your bricks and shawls
until we've had our say
F 
C 
But our lives are worth far more
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C 
than four lousy bucks a day
F 
C 
Oh, our lives are worth far more
G 
Am 
than four lousy bucks a day
F 
C 
All our lives are worth far more
G 
than four love's epoxidy
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You
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you