Standard (EADGBE)
If you lift your pointer finger before
each chord (and twice during the Fmaj7),
you can do the little hammer-on thing
you hear in the recording.
Also, I'll show you the little Am lick
for the chorus down below.
Intro
We raise the flags and statues to our mission
we've spoken out in slogans and in campaigns
talked and talked on almost every issue
where oppression of the masses is the constant theme
but what does this mean to a little town in Iowa?
where the jobs have gone downstream down south and out
where their fingers used to work to the bone all day
profits rise and fall and starvation is a game
where is the food that used to cover their table?
where is the sense of pride at the end of the day?
to the face of a thriving corporation
what could a dying family possibly say?
on the face of every American worker
is the constant fear that their job will not remain
as the C.E.O. is planning his vacation
to kill or be killed is the nature of the beast
stand in line take a number you sell your soul
then watch it crumble
into a pile of rubble that used to be
your job, your life your family's daily bread
dry and stale malnourished kids
the house is sold for a degrading bid
do we continue to talk or do we take a hammer
to their chains
to their chains
to their chains!