G C D G (3X) [VERSE 1] G C G Come all you workers who toil night and day C D By hand and by brain, to earn your pay G C G Who for centuries long past, for no more than your bread C G D G Have bled for your countries and counted your dead [VERSE 2] G C G In the factories and mills, in the shipyards and mines C D We've often been told to keep up with the times G C G For our skills are not needed, they've streamlined the job C G D G And with slide rule and stopwatch, our pride they have robbed, Aye [VERSE 3] G C G But when the sky darkens and the prospect is war C D Who's given the gun and then pushed to the fore G C G And expected to die for the land of our birth C G D G Though we've never owned one handful of earth [INSTUMENTAL] G C D G (2X) [CHORUS] G C G We're the first ones to starve, we're the first ones to die C D We're the first ones in line for that pie in the sky G C G And we're always the last when the cream is shared out C G D G For the worker is working when the fat cat's about, Aye [VERSE 4] G C G And all of these things the worker has done C D From tilling the fields to carrying the gun G C G We've been yoked to the plow since time first began C G D G I had always expected to carry the can