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I play the chord positions below, but with a Capo on 3rd fret.
You can choose depending on your singing key.
LAm SOL FA
LAm
I'm an ordinary man, nothing special nothing grand
FA SOL LAm
I've had to work for everything I own
LAm SOL FA
LAm
I never asked for a lot, I was happy with what I'd got
FA SOL LAm
Enough to keep my family and my home
FA SOL
DO LAm
Now they say that times are hard and they've handed me my cards
FA MI
They say there's not the work to go around
LAm SOL FA
LAm
And when the whistle blows, the gates will finally close
FA SOL
LAm
Tonight they're going to shut this factory down
FA SOL LAm FA SOL
LAm
Then they'll tear it d-o-w-n
LAm SOL FA
LAm
I never missed a day nor went on strike for higher pay
FA SOL LAm
For twenty years I served them best I could
LAm SOL FA
LAm
Now with a handshake and a cheque it seems so easy to forget
FA SOL
LAm
Loyalty through the bad times and through good
FA SOL DO
LAm
The owner says he's sad to see that things have got so bad
FA
MI
But the captains of industry won't let him lose
LAm SOL FA LAm
He still drives a car and smokes his cigar
FA SOL LAm
And still he takes his family on a cruise,
FA SOL LAm FA SOL LAm
he'll never l-o-s-e
LAm SOL FA LAm
Well it seems to me such a cruel irony
FA SOL LAm
He's richer now than ever he was before
LAm SOL FA
LAm
Now my cheque is spent and I can't afford the rent
FA SOL
LAm
There's one law for the rich, one for the poor
FA SOL DO LAm
Every day I've tried to salvage some of my pride
FA
MI
To find some work so's I might pay my way
LAm SOL FA
LAm
Oh but everywhere I go, the answer's always no
FA SOL LAm
There's no work for anyone here today,
FA SOL LAm FA SOL LAm
no work t-o-d-a-y
LAm SOL FA
LAm
And so condemned I stand, just an ordinary man
FA SOL LAm
Like thousands beside me in the queue
LAm SOL FA
LAm
I watch my darling wife trying to make the best of life
FA SOL
LAm
And God knows what the kids are going to do
FA SOL DO LAm
Now that we are faced ... with this human waste
FA MI
A ge---neration cast aside
LAm SOL FA LAm
And as long as I live, I never will forgive
FA SOL LAm
You've stripped me of my dignity and pride,
FA SOL LAm
FA SOL LAm
you've stripped me b-a-r-E, you've stripped me b-a-r-E,
FA SOL LAm
you've stripped me b-a-r-E.
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