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