Blue Sky Mining

Intro: (Dm F Dm G) Dm F Dm G Dm Am F C Hey hey hey hey There'll be food on the table tonight Dm F Dm G Dm Am F G Hey hey hey hey There'll be pay in your pocket tonight C Am My gut is wrenched out it is crunched up and broken C Am My life that is lived is no more than token F G Am Who'll strike the flint up on the stone and tell me why Bº C Am If I yell out at night there's a reply of blue silence C Am The Screen is no comfort I can't speak my sentence F G Am They blew the lights at heaven's gate and I don't know why Dm F Dm G But if I work all day on the blue sky mine Dm Am F C There'll be food on the table tonight Dm F Dm G Still I walk up and down on the blue sky mine Dm Am F G There'lll be pay in your pocket tonight C Am The candy store pauupers lie to share holders C Am They're crossing their fingers they pay the truth makers F G Am The balance sheet is breaking up the sky Bº C Am So I'm caught at junction still waiting for medicine C Am The sweat of my brow keeps on feeding the engine F G Am Hope the crumbs in my pocket can keep me for another night Bb/E Dm G And if the blue sky mining company won't come to my rescue Bb/E Dm G If the sugar refinning company won't save me F Bb C Who's gonna save me Am C Who's gonna save me Am C Who's gonna save me Dm F Dm G But if I work all day on the blue sky mine Dm Am F C There'll be food on the table tonight Dm F Dm G And is I walk up and down on the blue sky mine Dm Am F G There'lll be pay in your pocket tonight Dm F Dm G And some have sailed from a distant shore Dm Am F C And the company takes what the company wants Dm F Dm G Dm Am F G And nothing as precious as the hole in the ground... C Am C Am F G Am (Bb/E) F Bb