Blue Collar Man

Styx

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Give me a job, give me security. give me a chance to survive
My mother an father, my wife and my friends I see them laugh in my face
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I'm just a poor soul in the unemployement line, my God I'm hardly alive
But I've got the power, and I've got the will - I'm not a charity case.
I'll take those
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Long nights, impossible odds. Keepin my eye on the keyhole. If it takes
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All night to be just what I am I'm gonna be a blue collar man
Once more thru the keyboard riff, then thru the verse again.
Make me an offer, that I can't refuse.
Make me a respectable man.
This is my last time in the unemployement line,
so like it or not I'll take those...
then a muted tacit on D5, C5, Bb5, and A:
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...man. Keepin my mind on a
Paradise. Can it be all I
 C5
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better life. Where
heard it was? I
 Bb5
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happiness, is only a heartbeat
close my eyes, and maybe I'm already
A first time second time
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away.
there.
solo and repeat.










A B Bb Bb5 C C5 D D5 G
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