What Work Is chords by Tom Russell
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Verse 1
(C major) Music (G major) (F major) (A minor) (C major) (A minor)
(C major) (A minor) (C major) (A minor)
(C major) I used to work with a guy named
Frankie
Acost (F major) a
(A minor) We were (C major) butter strippers
down at the
Challenge
Cream (F major) ery (A minor)
(C major) Stripping the cardboard off 70
-pound cubes (F major) of butter
Yeah, it was (C major) hot back then,
summer of 1963 (F major)
(A minor) And
Frankie
Manny gets so angry, (F major) he'd say
See (C major) what the women make me do (G major)
And (A minor) then he'd break off a splinter
from a dirty (F major) wooden pallet
And stick it like a (C major) knife in one of them
big ol' butter cube (G major) s
That's what (A minor) work is
That's what love (F major) is
A little pleasure (A minor) and a little misery (G major)
(F major) Now every time (G major) it gets hard (A minor) out here I think of
(C major) L .A. back in 1963 (G major) (A minor)
Then (C major) I got a job (F major) working
for the city of
Englewood
Runnin' the chipper (C major) ,
chippin' limbs off of trees. (F major)
(C major) I worked with a guy named
Crazy
Dave
Mack (F major) lin, and (C major) one day he almost
ran a tractor over me. (F major) (A minor)
We were out chopping weeds near
South
(F major) Central
(C major) When the riots broke out and the sky
turned fiery (G major) red and brown
I (A minor) called up my girlfriend on
a pay phone and said,
(F major) Baby, I love you, but I (C major) think
God's gonna finally burn
Gamora down
(G major) She said,
That's what (A minor) work is, that's what (F major) love is
You build (A minor) a house of straw
and the flames lick the sky (G major)
Now (F major) every time (G major) I fall in (A minor) love out here
I think of
(C major) L .A. back in 1965
Interlude 1
(G major) (A minor) (F major)
(A minor) (G major) (F major) (G major)
(A minor) (C major) (G major) (A minor)
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Verse 2
(C major) I finally got a job driving a road (F major) truck,
Santa (C major)
Barbara midnight to
L (F major) .A. 5th of
May, (C major)
all jacked up on coffee, cheap speed (F major) and donuts,
walk (A minor) ing (C major) (F major) around the
L .A. (C major) flower market in the
rain. (F major) (A minor)
And every morning I'd eat breakfast
at the pantry (F major) down on
Figueroa
The (C major) waiters were always
old -time ex -con (G major) s
Then (A minor) we'd load the truck
back up with empty
rose (F major) boxes
And drive on up (C major) the coast
through the
California
dawn (G major)
That's what (A minor) work is, that's what love (F major) is
Two eggs over (A minor) easy, on a
T -bone (G major) spoon
(F major) Every time (G major) I see the sun
(A minor) rise on the ocean I think (C major) of
L .A. back in 1968 (G major)
That's what (A minor) work is, that's what love (F major) is,
A little (A minor) pleasure and a little misery. (G major)
Now (F major) every time (G major) it gets hard (A minor) out here,
I think of
(C major) L .A. back in 1963. (G major) (A minor)
I used to work with a guy named
Frankie
Acosta.
you
What Work Is
Tom Russell
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