Tune Guitar Down 1/2 Step e=eb B=Bb G=Gb D=Db A=Ab E=Eb Opening Riff eb-0-0---0---|-0-0---0-0---|-0-0---0-0-|-3-0-0---------| Bb-0-0-3-0---|-0-0-3-0-0-3-|-0-0-3-0-0-|-3-0-0-3-------| Gb-----2-----|-----2-----2-|-----2-----|-------2-------| Db-----------|-------------|-----------|---------------| Ab-----------|-------------|-----------|---------------| Eb-----------|-------------|-----------|---------------| (Chords written on how they are played, not musically sounded) Intro (w/ Opening Riff) (Chorus Chord Pattern) Hey hey hey hey, There'll be food on the table tonight (Continue Chorus Pattern) Hey hey hey hey, There'll be pay in your pocket tonight Verse 1: My gut is wrenched out and is crunched up and broken My life that is lived is no more than a token Who'll strike the flint up on the stone and tell me why If I yell out at night, theres a reply of blue silence The screen is no comfort, I cant speak my sentence They blew the lights at heavens gate and I dont know why Chorus : And if I work all day in the blue sky mine There'll be food on the table tonight Still I walk up and down on the blue sky mine There'll be pay in my pocket tonight Verse 2 : The Candy Store paupers lie to the share holders They're crossing their fingers as they pay the truth makers The balance sheet is breaking up the sky So I'm caught at the junction still waiting for medicine The sweat on my brow keeps feeding the engine Hope the crumbs in my pocket can keep me for another night Bridge : And if the blue sky mining company wont come to the rescue If the sugar refining company wont save me Whos gonna save me? Whos gonna save me? Whos gonna save me? Chorus : But if I work all day in the blue sky mine There'll be food on the table tonight but I still walk up and down on the blue sky mine There'll be pay on your pocket tonight and some have sailed from a distant shore and the company takes what the company wants and theres nothing as precious, as a hole in the ground Guitar Solo : In Bm pentatonic over Verse Chords Harmonica Solo: Over first half of bridge chords
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