Intro
C F C G
[Verse]
C F C
As the winding path takes me down
F C
In the dust where the air grows still
F C F
Past the shattered sills to where the broken bricks
C G
Lie tossed at the foot of the hill
[Verse]
C F C
To the gentle hum of the engines far
F C
And the cry of the birds through the air
F C F
With the falling grace of dull light on my face
C G
To the city I vacantly stare
[Verse]
C F C
Down at these hands that hang by my side
F C
To the times they have twisted and bowed
F C F
For the graft they've done, the thousand tasks been run
C G
To lie still and idle now
[Verse]
C F C
As a boy I would sit here and whistle my tune
F C
And watch the world role on by
F C F
From the heat of the red-brick factories roar
C G
The smoke spun soft in the sky
[Instrumental]
C G C F C G C
[Verse]
C F C
My boyhood dreaming waned as I grew
F C
No more watching the race from afar
F C F
With steel-toe boots and a coarse boiler-suit
C G
F lad amidst the furnaces scars
[Verse]
C F C
I learned my trade, how I listened and watched
F C
I worked as hard as hard can be
F C F
But with passing years I grew proud with hope
C G
Of a future that was never to be
[Verse]
C F C
Late in the day as the Autumn turned pale
F C
F figure watched us work from the door
F C F
Into burning air his words spoke clear
C G
In a haze our jobs were no more
[Verse]
C F C
I awoke each morning, days stretched into nights
F C
And I lurched through a hollow routine
F C F
In the queues each week with companions I'd stand
C G
But our fortunes had turned on our dreams
[Verse]
C F C
For two sons and a daughter we had to provide
F C
My wife worked long into the nights
F C F
To escape the stale air of a room with four walls
C G
I skimmed stones at the quarry till light
[Verse]
C F C
In the years that followed things picked up and shone
F C
And I hustled a job where I could
F C F
Re-skilled and re-tooled with a home of our own
C G
In a strange shifting world we were stood
[Verse]
C F C
As time wore on our children grew tall
F C
And I taught them all that I'd learned
F C F
In and out of trouble, the same as their dad
C G
Dodging cops, running streets at Pikes turn
[Verse]
C F C
As some strangers say, we've carved our own way
F C
In a world that still lists and turns
F C F
But once again there's no work for the young in this town
C G
And the queues form in air that still burns
[Verse]
C F C
With the dusk tales said, as the evening light ebbs
F C
My son walks off into the night
F C F
With only dull flapping wings of the last bird that sings
C G
He skims stones at the quarry till light
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