View Guitar Chords for Workingmans blues 2 - chords ver. 1
There are several good tabs for this song, but here's a version that sounds a little closer to the original. Fiddle around a little with the bass progression and drill the fill-ins and stuff in the beginning of the song and it'll sound quite good. Capo on 2nd fret, chords are relative (meaning that when this tab says G you're really playing an A). The D/F in the tab is: 200232 You might want to make the "regular" D a D5 by putting your pinky on the 7th fret of the e-string (the thinnest one of them that is :)There's an Gevenin' haze D/F#settlin' over town EmStarlight by the edge of the Bmcreek The Cbuyin' power of the proleGtariat's gone down AmMoney's gettin' shallow and Dweak Well, the Gplace I love best is a D/F#sweet memory It's a Emnew path that we trod Bm They say Clow wages are a realiGty If we Amwant to compete abroad D GMy cruel weapons have been D/F#put on the shelf Come Emsit down on my Bmknee You are Cdearer to me than myGself As Amyou yourself can see D While I'm Glistening to the steel D/F#rails hum EmGot both eyes tight Bmshut Just Csitting here trying to keep the Ghunger from AmCreeping it's way into my DgutChorus:CMeet me at the bottom, don't Glag behind AmBring me my boots and Dshoes You can Chang back or fight your best Gon the frontline AmSing a little bit of these Dworkingman's bluesWell, I'm sailin' on back, ready for the long haul Tossed by the winds and the seas I'll drag 'em all down to hell and I'll stand 'em at the wall I'll sell 'em to their enemies I'm tryin' to feed my soul with thought Gonna sleep off the rest of the day Sometimes no one wants what we got Sometimes you can't give it away Now the place is ringed with countless foes Some of them may be deaf and dumb No man, no woman knows The hour that sorrow will come In the dark I hear the night birds call I can feel a lover's breath I sleep in the kitchen with my feet in the hall Sleep is like a temporary death (repeat chorus) Well, they burned my barn, and they stole my horse I can't save a dime I got to be careful, I don't want to be forced Into a life of continual crime I can see for myself that the sun is sinking How I wish you were here to see Tell me now, am I wrong in thinking That you have forgotten me? Now they worry and they hurry and they fuss and they fret They waste your nights and days Them I will forget But you I'll remember always Old memories of you to me have clung You've wounded me with your words Gonna have to straighten out your tongue It's all true, everything you've heard (repeat chorus) In you, my friend, I find no blame Wanna look in my eyes, please do No one can ever claim That I took up arms against you All across the peaceful sacred fields They will lay you low They'll break your horns and slash you with steel I say it so it must be so Now I'm down on my luck and I'm black and blue Gonna give you another chance I'm all alone and I'm expecting you To lead me off in a cheerful dance I got a brand new suit and a brand new wife I can live on rice and beans Some people never worked a day in their life Don't know what work even means (repeat chorus)