What Work Is chords by
Tom Russell

N/A

Key: C major•

Verse 1

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C

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Am

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C

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Music

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C

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C

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I used to work with a guy named

Frankie

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Acosta

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We were butter strippers

down at the

Challenge

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Creamery

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Stripping the cardboard off 70

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-pound cubes of butter

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Yeah, it was hot back then,

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summer of 1963

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And

Frankie

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Manny gets so angry, he'd say

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C

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See what the women make me do

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And then he'd break off a splinter

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from a dirty wooden pallet

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And stick it like a knife in one of them

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big ol' butter cubes

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That's what work is

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That's what love is

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G

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A little pleasure and a little misery

F

F

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G

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Am

Am

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Now every time it gets hard out here I think of

C

C

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L .A. back in 1963

C

C

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F

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Then I got a job working

for the city of

Englewood

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Runnin' the chipper,

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chippin' limbs off of trees.

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I worked with a guy named

Crazy

Dave

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C

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Macklin, and one day he almost

F

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ran a tractor over me.

We were out chopping weeds near

South

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Central

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When the riots broke out and the sky

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turned fiery red and brown

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Am

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I called up my girlfriend on

a pay phone and said,

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C

C

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Baby, I love you, but I think

God's gonna finally burn

Gamora down

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She said,

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Am

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That's what work is, that's what love is

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You build a house of straw

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and the flames lick the sky

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Am

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Now every time I fall in love out here

I think of

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L .A. back in 1965

Interlude 1

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Am

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Am

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C

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Verse 2

C

C

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F

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I finally got a job driving a road truck,

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Santa

Barbara midnight to

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L .A. 5th of

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May,

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all jacked up on coffee, cheap speed and donuts,

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C

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walking around the

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L .A. flower market in the

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rain.

And every morning I'd eat breakfast

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at the pantry down on

Figueroa

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The waiters were always

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old -time ex -cons

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Then we'd load the truck

back up with empty

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rose boxes

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And drive on up the coast

through the

California

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dawn

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That's what work is, that's what love is

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Two eggs over easy, on a

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T -bone spoon

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Every time I see the sun

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C

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rise on the ocean I think of

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L .A. back in 1968

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Am

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F

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That's what work is, that's what love is,

Am

Am

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G

G

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A little pleasure and a little misery.

F

F

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G

G

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Am

Am

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Now every time it gets hard out here,

I think of

C

C

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G

G

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Am

Am

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L .A. back in 1963.

I used to work with a guy named

Frankie

Acosta.

you

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