Key: A minor
Verse 1
Am
C
Slavin' away, all for you my love.
F
Am
And I've nothing to show for it,
F
Am
except my dusty old book full of pictures.
My dusty old book,
G
C
Tell me a story,
F
Am
about how I wasn't so tired
F
Am
from my slavin' away.
Interlude 1
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Bm
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Cm
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Gm
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Am
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Dm
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G
Bm
Am
Verse 2
I got from the coal shoveling kid,
old Norton sidecar
"down strange roads
as the poet put it,
of the fall.
And they picked me up
and suspended my sentence,
a strap that was pink,
somebody's sink.
So now I'll catch the Canadian Pacific,
to somewhere up north,
slumber when I like,
Am
and in the spring ride down into Cheyenne on my bike.
Interlude 2
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Bm
D
Bm
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Dm
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Am
Verse 3
F
Am
and I stuck my head out the door.
And the snow was melting so slow,
F
Am
and the sky was light but so grey.
Verse 4
and all for nothing, my love.
I I assembled six boxes of
little plastic Christmas trees
four batteries.
And then on to the sewing machine
to stick the labels on purple T-shirts,
jumpers,
Slavin' away,
all for you, my love,
Interlude 3
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Am
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Verse 5
A
F
everyone to see.
Verse 6
A
F
what that she'd spent.
That she never seemed to get
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back what that she'd lent.
Verse 7
Am
G#
Anyway they did have a son,
G#
G
I was choir director myself.
Verse 8
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Bb
C
twice a week,
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I demanded we be in peak condition.
Verse 9
Outro 1
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Bb
Am
G
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