Transcribed by...??????????? Intro: E--1--1--1-0-0-1-|--1--0--3-3-0-|--1--1--1-0-0-1-|--1--0--3-3-0--| B--3--3--1-1-1-3-|--3--1--1-1-1-|--3--3--1-1-1-3-|--3--1--1-1-1--| Verse: Hey hey hey hey There'll be food on the table tonight Hey hey hey hey There'll be pay in your pocket tonight My gut is wrenched out it is crunched up and broken My life that is lived is no more than token Who'll strike the flint up on the stone and tell me why If I yell out at night there's a reply of blue silence The Screen is no comfort I can't speak my sentence They blew the lights at heaven's gate and I don't know why Chorus: But if I work all day on the blue sky mine There'll be food on the table to night Still I walk up and down on the blue sky mine There'll be pay in your pocket tonight Verse: The candy store pauupers lie to share holders They're crossing their fingers they pay the truth makers The balance sheet is breaking up the sky So I'm caught at junction still waiting for medicine The sweat of my brow keeps on feeding the engine Hope the crumbs in my pcket can keep me for another night Bridge: And if the blue sky mining company won't come to my rescue If the sugar refining company won't save me Who's gonna save me Who's gonna save me Who's gonna save me Chorus: But if I work all day on the blue sky mine There'll be food on the table to night And is I walk up and down on the blue sky mine There'll be pay in your pocket tonight And some have sailed from a distant shore And the company takes what the company wants And nothing as precious as the hole in the ground Solo: e-------------------|-----------------------|-------------------| B-------------------|-----------------------|-----1--1--1---5---| G--0---0-0-0-0---2--|-------0--0-0-0-0---2--|-----0--2--2-------| D--2---2-0-2-0---2--|-------2--2-0-2-0---2--|---3---------------| A----------------0--|----3---------------0--|-------------------| E-------------------|-----------------------|-------------------| e-------------------|-----------------------| B-------------------|-----------------------| G-------------------|---2--0----------------| D--------0----------|----------2---0--------| A--2--3------0------|--------------------3--| E-------------------|-----------------------| Who's gonna save me Who's gonna save me I pray that sense and reason Who's gonna save me Who's gonna save me We got nothing to fear In the end the rain comes down In the end the rain comes down Washes clean the streets of the blue sky town

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