Blue Collar Man Long Nights Ver 1 by Styx
Styx - Blue Collar Man Long Nights ver 1 guitar tab
(Guitar 1)
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|*-7-7-7-7---10---7-7-7-7----12--10--*|-----------------2--|
|*-7-7-7-7---10---7-7-7-7----12--10--*|-------0-3-2-0---0--|
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(Guitar 2)
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|-------7-10-9-7---7-|
|-7-8-10---------10--|
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[verse]
D G Bb C D
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|-5--x--5--5--x--x---5-x-5-5--1--3--x--x--3--x--x--5--5-------0--3--|
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Give me a job, give me security. give me a chance to survive
My mother an father, my wife and my friends I see them laugh in my face
D G Bb C B Bb A
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|-5--x--5--5--x--x---5-x-5-5--1--3--3--x--3--2--1--0----------------|
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I'm just a poor soul in the unemployement line, my God I'm hardly alive
But I've got the power, and I've got the will - I'm not a charity case.
I'll take those
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|--7---8-------5---------7------3---------5----5/7--7-7-7--|
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Long nights, impossible odds. Keepin my eye on the keyhole. If it takes
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All night to be just what I am I'm gonna be a blue collar man
Once more thru the keyboard riff, then thru the verse again.
Make me an offer, that I can't refuse.
Make me a respectable man.
This is my last time in the unemployement line,
so like it or not I'll take those...
then a muted tacit on D5, C5, Bb5, and A:
D5
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...man. Keepin my mind on a
Paradise. Can it be all I
C5
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better life. Where
heard it was? I
Bb5
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happiness, is only a heartbeat
close my eyes, and maybe I'm already
A first time second time
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away.
there.
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