Working Class Man Chords
by Redgum
Working Class Man by Redgum is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of Bb. It uses the chords Bb, Eb, Cm, Gm, F and Dm. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Transposing and reworking for the Redgum version by Jonas Beard
(Originally transcribed by Damian Rossi for Cold Chisel version)
The whole song has a beautiful picking pattern that is just too time consuming to work out.
So just ad lib.
INTRO:
Bb I Eb I (x3)
Bb I Cm I Cm
VERSE 1:
Bb
Working hard to make a living.
Eb
Bringing shelter from the rain.
Cm Gm
A father's son left to carry on.
Eb Bb
Blue denim in his veins.
Eb F Bb
Woah he's a working class man.
VERSE 2:
Bb
He's a steel town deciple.
Eb
He's a legend of his time.
Cm Gm
He blew in like cyclone
Eb Bb
Organized the picket line.
Eb F Bb
Woah he's a working class man.
Eb F Bb
Woah he's a working class man.
BRIDGE:
Eb Bb
He believes in God and Elvis.
Eb Bb
He gets out when he can.
Eb Bb
He did his time in Vietnam,
Gm Bb
still mad at Uncle Sam.
Eb F
He's a simple man with a heart of gold
Dm Eb
in a complicated land.
Gm F Bb
Oh, He's a working class man
Gm F Bb
Oh, He's a working class man
{Guitar solo}
Bb
They?re in love, he and the woman,
Eb
One day they?ll share their lives.
Cm Gm
He?s saving all his overtime,
Eb Bb
for the one love of his life.
Bb
He?s not worried about tomorrow,
Eb
because he just made up his mind.
Cm Gm
See life's too short for burning bridges,
Eb Bb
take it one day at a time.
Eb F Gm
Woah he's a working class man
Eb F Bb
Woah he's a working class man
{Guitar solo}
Bb
He works hard to make a living.
Eb
bringing shelter from the rain.
Cm Gm
A father's son left to carry on.
Eb Bb
Blue denim in his veins.
Bb
He?s not worried about tomorrow,
Eb
because he just made up his mind.
Cm Gm
See life's too short for burning bridges,
Eb Bb
take it one day at a time.
Eb F Gm
Woah he's a working class man (x4 and finish on the Gm)