Tom: A
A D E
We have fed you all for a thousand years,
Bm A
And you hail us still unfed,
D E
Though there's never a dollar of all your wealth.
Bm A
But marks the workers' dead.
D A
We have yielded our best to give you rest
Bm E
And you lie on crimson wool.
A D E
And if blood be the price of all your wealth,
Bm A
Good God! We have paid in full!
[Verse 2]
A D E
There is never a mine blown skyward now.
Bm A
But we're buried alive for you.
D E
There's never a wreck drifts shoreward now,
Bm A
But we are its ghastly crew.
D A
Go reckon our dead by the forges red
Bm E
And the factories where we spin.
A D E
If blood be the price of your cursed wealth,
Bm A
Good God! We have paid it in!
[Verse 3]
A D E
We have fed you all for a thousand years -
Bm A
For that was our doom, you know;
D E
From the days when you chained us in your fields
Bm A
To the strike a week ago.
D A
You have taken our lives, our husbands and wives,
Bm E
And we're told it's your legal share.
A D E
But if blood be the price of your lawful wealth,
Bm A
Good God! We have bought it fair!
