Styx

Blue Collar Man Long Nights

Styx


Tom: Em

                                        (Guitar 1)
E|-------------------------------------|--------------------|
B|--7-7-7-7---10---7-7-7-7----12--10---|--------------------|
G|*-7-7-7-7---10---7-7-7-7----12--10--*|-----------------2--|
D|*-7-7-7-7---10---7-7-7-7----12--10--*|-------0-3-2-0---0--|
A|-------------------------------------|-0-1-3---------3----|
E|-------------------------------------|--------------------|

                                         (Guitar 2)
E|--------------------|
B|--------------------|
G|-------7-10-9-7---7-|
D|-7-8-10---------10--|
A|--------------------|
E|--------------------|

[verse]
  D                  G       Bb  C                 D
E|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-7--x--7--7--x--x------------3--5--x--x--5--x--x--7--7-------------|
D|-7--x--7--7--x--x------------3--5--x--x--5--x--x--7--7-------------|
A|-5--x--5--5--x--x---5-x-5-5--1--3--x--x--3--x--x--5--5-------0--3--|
E|--------------------3-x-3-3----------------------------------------|

 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
E|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-7--x--7--7--x--x------------3--5--5--x--5--4--3--2----------------|
D|-7--x--7--7--x--x------------3--5--5--x--5--4--3--2----------------|
A|-5--x--5--5--x--x---5-x-5-5--1--3--3--x--3--2--1--0----------------|
E|--------------------3-x-3-3---------------------------3--1--0------|

 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


E|----------------------------------------------------------|
B|----------------------------------------------------------|
G|--5---7-------5---------7------3---------5----5/7--7-7-7--|
D|--7---8-------5---------7------3---------5----5/7--7-7-7--|
A|-------------------------------1---------3----3/5--5-5-5--|
E|----------------------------------------------------------|

  Long nights, impossible odds. Keepin my eye on the keyhole. If it takes


E|--------------------------------------------------------------|
B|--------------------------------------------------------------|
G|--5---7-------5---------7-----------------------------------2-|
D|--7---8-------5---------7-------------------0-3--2---0------0-|
A|-----------------------------------0--1-3---------------3-----|
E|--------------------------------------------------------------|

  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
||--------------------------------------------------|
||--------------------------------------------------|
||*-------------------------------------------------|
||*-7-x-x-7-x-x-7-x-x-7-x-x-7-x-x-7-x-x-7-x-x-7-x-x-|
||--5-x-x-5-x-x-5-x-x-5-x-x-5-x-x-5-x-x-5-x-x-5-x-x-|
||--------------------------------------------------|

  ...man.               Keepin my mind on a

  Paradise.             Can it be all I

  C5
EEE|-------------------------------------------------|
BEE|-------------------------------------------------|
GEE|-------------------------------------------------|
|-5-x-x-5-x-x-5-x-x-5-x-x-5-x-x-5-x-x-5-x-x-5-x-x-|
|-3-x-x-3-x-x-3-x-x-3-x-x-3-x-x-3-x-x-3-x-x-3-x-x-|
EE|-------------------------------------------------|

  better life.                            Where

  heard it was?                           I

  Bb5
EEE|-------------------------------------------------|
BEE|-------------------------------------------------|
GEE|-------------------------------------------------|
|-3-x-x-3-x-x-3-x-x-3-x-x-3-x-x-3-x-x-3-x-x-3-x-x-|
|-1-x-x-1-x-x-1-x-x-1-x-x-1-x-x-1-x-x-1-x-x-1-x-x-|
EE|-------------------------------------------------|

  happiness,              is only a heartbeat

  close my eyes,          and maybe I'm already


  A               first time           second time
E|---------------------------| |---------------------|
B|---------------------------| |---------------------|
G|---------------------------| |---------------------|
D|-2-2-----------------------| |-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2---|
A|-0-0-0-/3-1-/5-3-/7-5-/8-7-| |-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0---|
E|---------------------------| |---------------------|