Christy Moore, Ordinary Man (1985)
Key: :[Am] (w: Peter Hames)
INTRO:
[F] [G] [Am] //
[F] [G] [Am] //
[F] [G] [F] [G]
VERSE 1:
I'm an
[Am] ordinary
[G] man, nothing
[F] special nothing
[Am] grand
I've
[F] had to work for
[G] everything I
[Am] own
Well I
[Am] never asked for a
[G] lot, I was
[F] happy with what I'd
[Am] got
E-
[F]-nough to keep my
[G] family and my
[Am] home
VERSE 2:
Now they
[F] say that times are
[G] hard, and they've
[C] handed me my
[Am] cards
They
[F] say there's not the work to go a-
[E]-round
And
[Am] when the whistle
[G] blows, the
[F] gates will finally
[Am] close
To-
[F]-night they're going to
[G] shut this factory
[Am] down
CHORUS:
Then they'll tear it
[F] down
[G] [Am] //
[F] [G] [Am]
VERSE 3:
I
[Am] never missed a
[G] day, nor went on
[F] strike for higher
[Am] pay
For
[F] twenty years I
[G] served them best I
[Am] could
Now with a
[Am] handshake and a
[G] cheque, it seems so
[F] easy to for-
[Am]-get
[F] Loyalty through the
[G] bad times and through
[Am] good
VERSE 4:
Now the
[F] owner says he's
[G] sad, to see that
[C] things have got so
[Am] bad
But the
[F] captains of industry won't let him
[E] lose
He
[Am] still drives a
[G] car, and
[F] smokes his
[Am] cigar
And
[F] still he takes his
[G] family on a
[Am] cruise
