Blue collar
man
Dm - F - Dm - G
(4x) - Bb - C - Dm
Dm G
1. Give me a job, give me security,
C Dm
give
me a chance to survive.
Dm G
I'm just a poor soul in the
unemployment line,
C A
my
God, I'm hardly alive.
Dm G
2. My mother and father, my wife and my friends,
C Dm
I see them laugh in my face.
Dm G
But I've got the power, and
I've got the will,
C A
I'm not a charity case, I'll
take those ….
Dm
Bb C Dm C Dm
Long nights, impossible odds, keeping my eye to the
keyhole.
Dm Bb C Dm
If it takes all that to be just what I am,
Bb C Dm
well, I'm gonna
be a blue collar man.
+ (Dm) - F - Dm -
G - Bb - C
- Dm
Dm G
3. Make me an offer that I can't refuse,
C Dm
make
me respectable, man.
Dm G
This is my last time in the
unemployment line,
C A
so
like it or not, I'll take those ...
Dm Bb C Dm C Dm
Long nights, impossible odds, keeping my back to the
wall.
Dm Bb C Dm
If it takes all that to be just what I am,
Bb C Dm
well, I'm gonna
be a blue collar man.
Dm C
Keeping my mind on a better
life,
Bb Dm
where
happiness is only a heartbeat away.
Dm C
Paradise, can it be all I
heard it was ?
Bb A
I close my eyes and maybe I'm
already there.
+ Dm - Bb - C - Dm - Dm - Bb - C - A (2x)
Dm
Bb
C Dm C Dm
Long nights, impossible odds,
keeping my back to the wall.
Dm Bb C Dm Bb C
Bb
~ ~
All that, be just what I am, well, I'm gonna be a blue collar man.
Bb ~ ~ C
You don't understand. I take those ...
Dm Bb C Dm C Dm
Long nights, impossible odds, keeping my eye to the
keyhole.
Dm Bb C Dm
If it takes all that to be just what I am,
Bb C Bb C
well, I'm gonna
be a blue collar, gonna be a blue collar,
Bb C Dm
gonna be a blue collar man.
Believe it !
+ Dm - F - Dm - G (4x) + Bb
- C - Dm Bb - C - Dm
(Styx)