Work Song chords by
Dion
Dion

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Key: F minor
Verse 1
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every mornin finds me moanin
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life's a losing gamble to me
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cause of all the trouble i
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see
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everybody knows i'm moanin
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every evenin finds me moanin
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i'm alone and crying the blues
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i'm so tired of paying my dues
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Verse 2
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Breaking rocks out here on the
chain gang
Breaking rocks and serving my time
Breaking rocks out here on the chain gang
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lord i've been convicted me of crime
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Hold it steady right there while I hit it
well reckon that ought to get it
been
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working and working
Verse 3
but I still got a long way to go
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I commited crime Lord I needed
Crime of being hungry and poor
I left the grocery store man
bleeding (breathing?)
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When they caught me robbing his store
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Hold it steady right there while I hit it
Well reckon that ought to get it
been
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working and work ing
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but I still got so terribly far to go
Verse 4
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I heard the judge say five years
On chain-gang you you gonna go
I heard the judge say five years labor
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I heard my old man scream "Lordy, no!"
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Hold it right there while I hit it
well reckon that ought to get it
been
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work ing and working
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but I still got so terribly far to go
Verse 5
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gotta go make or break
cause i'm grievin
Gotta break this chain off to run
and if the boss man stops me from leavin
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i tell you lord i'm gonna get him one
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Hold him steady right there while I hit him
well reckon that ought to get it
been
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workin' an d workin'
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i got a long way to
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go
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