Key: B minor
Intro 1
B
Bm
B
Fdim
Baug
Em
B
Bm
A
Bm
F#
Verse 1
B
They
F#
B
closed up the sooty gates of Ayres and Company
E
Em
my Jennifer and me
B
Bm
We blocked the street,
B
C#
now the lorries come and turn about
there's nothing getting out
Verse 2
D
G
Oh, she's just a tender thing
D
G
She's risking life and limb
B
A
My sweetheart's on the barricade
G
D
G
My heart it skips a beat
D
G
There'll be fighting in the street
Bm
A
G
But hungry folk forget to be afraid
Em
E
F#
My sweetheart's on the barricade
B
Bm
B
G#m
B
Em
A
Verse 3
Bm
F#
B
F#
And here come the managers
Bm
Em
to hit us on the sly
Bm
F#
And tinpot generals with
E
Em
glory in their eyes
B
C#
Owners, moaners, Judases and Janes
A
G
But righteousness is in our eyes,
we've got no time for games
Verse 4
D
G
In her manner she is mild
D
G
And fairly just a child
B
A
My sweetheart's on the barricade
G
D
G
For a fair wage in her hand
D
G
The equal of a man
Em
B
A
She'll stand front rank in
G
the parade
Em
E
F#
My sweetheart's on
the barricade
B
Bm
A
Verse 5
D
A
She's running leaflets through the alley
F#
Halleluiah!
Interlude 1
B
Bm
B
Bm
F#
Em
Bm
B
C#
G
D
G
D
G
D
G
Bm
A
G
D
G
D
G
Bm
A
G
Em
F#
B
Bm
B
Bm
Verse 6
G
Em
That workers are human,
G
Em
we're really just the same
to fill a human frame
Verse 7
Bm
G
Oh, we're people not a mob
Bm
G
And we only wants a job
Bm
A
G
My sweetheart's on the barricade
Bm
G
We've had it up to here
Bm
G
Too numb to feel the fear
Bm
A
G
D
My sweetheart's on the barricade
Em
F#m
My heart it skips a beat
G
A
There'll be fighting in the street
Em
F#m
My sweetheart's on the barri
Bm
G#dim
Bdim
Em
cade
G
Bm
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ChordsB Bm Fdim Baug Em...
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