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Blue Collar Man @ 2120  Styx

Subject: TAB:Blue Colllar Man -STYX
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 95 09:58:00 PST
TITLE: Blue Collar Man
GROUP: Styx
ALBUM: Pieces of Eight
MANF : A&M CD3224
A line of X's stand for a muted strum, in a vain attempt to
represent rhythm.
The keyboard intro can be simulated (and is later played):
(Guitar 1)
 
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 --7-7-7-7---10---7-7-7-7----12--10--- --------------------
 *-7-7-7-7---10---7-7-7-7----12--10--* -----------------2--
 *-7-7-7-7---10---7-7-7-7----12--10--* -------0-3-2-0---0--
 ------------------------------------- -0-1-3---------3----
 ------------------------------------- -------------------- 

(Guitar 2)
 
 --------------------
 --------------------
 -------7-10-9-7---7-
 -7-8-10---------10--
 --------------------
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(verse)
[D] [G] [Bb] [C] [D] 
 
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
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 -7--x--7--7--x--x------------3--5--x--x--5--x--x--7--7-------------
 -7--x--7--7--x--x------------3--5--x--x--5--x--x--7--7-------------
 -5--x--5--5--x--x---5-x-5-5--1--3--x--x--3--x--x--5--5-------0--3--
 --------------------3-x-3-3---------------------------------------- 

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
[D] [G] [Bb] [C] [B] [Bb] [A] 
 
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 -7--x--7--7--x--x------------3--5--5--x--5--4--3--2----------------
 -7--x--7--7--x--x------------3--5--5--x--5--4--3--2----------------
 -5--x--5--5--x--x---5-x-5-5--1--3--3--x--3--2--1--0----------------
 --------------------3-x-3-3---------------------------3--1--0------ 

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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 ----------------------------------------------------------
 --5---7-------5---------7------3---------5----5/7--7-7-7--
 --7---8-------5---------7------3---------5----5/7--7-7-7--
 -------------------------------1---------3----3/5--5-5-5--
 ---------------------------------------------------------- 

Long nights, impossible odds. Keepin my eye on the keyhole. If it takes
 
 --------------------------------------------------------------
 --------------------------------------------------------------
 --5---7-------5---------7-----------------------------------2-
 --7---8-------5---------7-------------------0-3--2---0------0-
 -----------------------------------0--1-3---------------3-----
 -------------------------------------------------------------- 

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:
[D5]  
 
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 *-------------------------------------------------
 *-7-x-x-7-x-x-7-x-x-7-x-x-7-x-x-7-x-x-7-x-x-7-x-x-
 --5-x-x-5-x-x-5-x-x-5-x-x-5-x-x-5-x-x-5-x-x-5-x-x-
 -------------------------------------------------- 

...man. Keepin my mind on a
Paradise. Can it be all I
[C5]  
 
 -------------------------------------------------
 -------------------------------------------------
 -------------------------------------------------
 -5-x-x-5-x-x-5-x-x-5-x-x-5-x-x-5-x-x-5-x-x-5-x-x-
 -3-x-x-3-x-x-3-x-x-3-x-x-3-x-x-3-x-x-3-x-x-3-x-x-
 ------------------------------------------------- 

better life. Where
heard it was? I
[Bb5]  
 
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 -------------------------------------------------
 -3-x-x-3-x-x-3-x-x-3-x-x-3-x-x-3-x-x-3-x-x-3-x-x-
 -1-x-x-1-x-x-1-x-x-1-x-x-1-x-x-1-x-x-1-x-x-1-x-x-
 ------------------------------------------------- 

happiness, is only a heartbeat
close my eyes, and maybe I'm already
A first time second time
 
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 -2-2----------------------- -2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2---
 -0-0-0-/3-1-/5-3-/7-5-/8-7- -0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0---
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away.
there.
solo and repeat.

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