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