Sweetheart On The Barricade chords by Richard Thompson
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Intro 1
(A major) (A minor) (A major) (E flatdim) (Aaug) (D minor) (A major) (A minor) (G major)
(A minor) (E major)
Verse 1
They (A major)
closed up the sooty (E major) gates of (A major) Ayres and Company
We stood on the (E major) picket line,
my (D major) Jennifer (D minor) and me
We (A major) blocked the street, (A minor)
(A major) now the lorries come (B major) and turn about
There's (F major) nothing getting in there and
there's nothing getting out
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Verse 2
Oh, she's (C major) just a tender (F major) thing
She's (C major) risking life and (F major) limb
My (A major) sweetheart's (G major) on the barricade
(F major) My (C major) heart it skips a (F major) beat
There'll be (C major) fighting in the street (F major)
But (A minor) hungry folk for (G major) get to be afraid (F major)
My (D minor) sweetheart's (D major) on (E major) the barricade
(A major) (A minor) (A major) (F sharp minor) (A major) (D minor) (G major)
Verse 3
(A minor) (E major)
And (A major) here come the (E major) managers
to (A minor) hit us on the sly (D minor)
And tinpot (A minor) (E major) generals with
(D major) glory (D minor) in their eyes
(A major) Owners, (B major) moaners, Judases and Janes
(G major) But (F major) righteousness is in our eyes,
we've got no time for games
Verse 4
In her (C major) manner she is (F major) mild
And fairly (C major) just a (F major) child
My (A major) sweetheart's (G major) on the barricade
(F major) For a (C major) fair wage in her (F major) hand
The (C major) equal of a (F major) man
(D minor) She'll stand front (A major) rank (G major) in
the parade (F major)
My sweet (D minor) heart's (D major) on (E major)
the barricade
(A major) (A minor) (G major)
Verse 5
(C major) She's running leaflets through the alley (G major)
(C major) She's passing hymn books
at the (G major) rally
(E major) Halleluiah!
Interlude 1
(A major) (A minor) (A major) (A minor) (E major) (D minor)
(A minor) (A major) (B major) (F major) (C major) (F major)
(C major) (F major) (C major) (F major)
(A minor) (G major) (F major) (C major) (F major) (C major)
(F major) (A minor) (G major) (F major) (D minor) (E major) (A major)
(A minor) (A major) (A minor)
Verse 6
(F major) Friends and neighbours,
won't you join the cause (D minor)
(C major) Drill it in the tiny minds of them
that make the laws (G major)
That (F major) workers are (D minor) human,
we're (F major) really just the same (D minor)
We've (D major) got to have the nourishment
to fill a human frame
Verse 7
Oh, we're (A minor) people not a mob (F major)
(A minor) And we only wants a (F major) job
My (A minor) sweetheart's (G major) on the barri (F major) cade
We've (A minor) had it up to (F major) here
Too (A minor) numb to feel the (F major) fear
My sweetheart's (A minor) (G major) on the barri (F major) cade (C major)
My (D minor) heart it skips a (E minor) beat
There'll be (F major) fighting in the street (G major)
My (D minor) sweetheart's (E minor) on the barri
(A minor) cade (F sharpdim) (Adim) (D minor)
(F major) (A minor)
Sweetheart On The Barricade
Richard Thompson
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