The last one    (video)

 

    C - Am - F - C    - C - Am - F - G      +  F - C - G - C (2x)

 

        C                          Am                                F                     C

1. How can you call a man a man when you treat him like a dog ?

              C                           Am                              F                    G

    And how can you call a man a man when you kill him like a hog ?

       C                                    Am                      F                       G

    How can you call him an eternal soul and grind him in the dirt ?

              C                          F                               G                          C

    And how can you say a fella's free, chained down and tied to work ?

 

         F                              C                       G                              C

He's upside down, he's broke apart, and getting worse every day,

      F                                       C                               G

a working man's hand is the hardest card in the whole damn deck to play.

         F                              C                       G                              C

He's upside down, he's broke apart, and getting worse every day,

       F                                       C                              G                             C

a working man's hand is the hardest card in the whole damn deck to play.

 

+  C - Am - F - C (2x)

 

       C                                 Am                      F                       C

2. How can you talk about equal rights and jail the man that uses them ?

        C                                   Am  

    How can you worship the rich man

              F                               G

    that sees poor folks and refuses them ?

      Am                            C                 F                        G

    How can you talk of freedom and jail the man that talks it ?

             C                                  F

    You kiss the man's ass that rides the road,

                   G                              C

     and you jail the old boy that walks it.

 

+  CHORUS      +  C - Am - F - C

 

          C                                      Am

+  A working man's hand is the hardest card

                   F                             G

    in the whole damn deck to play.

 

+  F - C - G - C (2x)   +  C ~

 

       C                                Am                       F              C

3. How can you like the United States and kill us for unitin' ?

      C                                       Am                           F                     G

   How can you accuse us of being violent when you start all the fightin' ?

    Am                   C                     F                      G

    Every time we organize, you rich guys pull a fast one,

           C                       F                               G                          C

    oh, we might lose many a fight but we'll damn sure win the last one.

 

         F                              C                       G                              C

He's upside down, he's broke apart, and getting worse every day,

      F                                       C                               G

a working man's hand is the hardest card in the whole damn deck to play.

         F                              C                       G                              C

He's upside down, he's broke apart, and getting worse every day,

       F                                       C                              G                             C

a working man's hand is the hardest card in the whole damn deck to play.

 

+  C - Am - F - C

 

          C                                       F

+  A working man's hand is the hardest card

                   G                            C

    in the whole damn deck to play.

 

 

(orig. = capo 3rd)    (Dropkick Murphys)