{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":525342,"song":"Picketline Song","artist":"Evan Greer","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11566917-picketline-song-chords-by-evan-greer/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/525342?type=chord","rating":4.29555,"votes":5,"content":"The Picketline Song -- Evan Greer\r\n\r\nChords are the same the whole way through!\r\n\r\n(chorus)\r\n[tab]  [ch]G[/ch]                    [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]\r\noh i would never walk across a picket line[/tab]\r\n[tab]                        [ch]D[/ch]\r\nsolidarity forever don't mean just sometimes[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nso long live the union![/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]C[/ch]                  [ch]G[/ch]\r\ncross my heart and hope to die[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]G[/ch]           [ch]Em[/ch]        [ch]D[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch]\r\nif I should ever walk across a picket line[/tab]\r\n\r\nwell my mother never told me \r\nwhat was right or what was wrong\r\nshe never taught me to play guitar \r\nnever taught me to write songs\r\nbut one thing that she taught me \r\ni'll remember for all time\r\nand that's that you should never walk \r\nacross a picket line\r\n\r\n(chorus)\r\n\r\nshe took me to a factory where the workers were on strike\r\nthe company had called in scabs to break the union's might\r\nmy mum went to the front and addressed those greedy swine\r\nsayin' “i dare any of you men to walk across this picket line!”\r\n\r\n(chorus)\r\n\r\nwell one of them came forward and he had something to say:\r\n“no woman will stand between me and one day's pay!\r\ni don't care 'bout the others i am taking what is mine”\r\nand with that he tried to walk across our picket line\r\n\r\n(chorus)\r\n\r\nmom called him a dirty scab, gave him two pieces of her mind\r\nshe picked up and she threw every rock that she could find\r\nand when he called the cops on her she kicked his behind\r\nsayin' “that's what you get when you walk across a union's picket line!”\r\n\r\n(chorus)\r\n\r\nwell to this day i can remember what my momma used to say:\r\n“we're fighting for a better world, not just for better pay\r\nand if we stick together then we'll win this fight in time\r\nso long as we don't walk across each other's picket lines” \r\n\r\n\r\n--MiScHiEf BrEw--","plain_text":"The Picketline Song -- Evan Greer\n\nChords are the same the whole way through!\n\n(chorus)\n\n\n\n\n\n\nwell my mother never told me \nwhat was right or what was wrong\nshe never taught me to play guitar \nnever taught me to write songs\nbut one thing that she taught me \ni'll remember for all time\nand that's that you should never walk \nacross a picket line\n\n(chorus)\n\nshe took me to a factory where the workers were on strike\nthe company had called in scabs to break the union's might\nmy mum went to the front and addressed those greedy swine\nsayin' “i dare any of you men to walk across this picket line!”\n\n(chorus)\n\nwell one of them came forward and he had something to say:\n“no woman will stand between me and one day's pay!\ni don't care 'bout the others i am taking what is mine”\nand with that he tried to walk across our picket line\n\n(chorus)\n\nmom called him a dirty scab, gave him two pieces of her mind\nshe picked up and she threw every rock that she could find\nand when he called the cops on her she kicked his behind\nsayin' “that's what you get when you walk across a union's picket line!”\n\n(chorus)\n\nwell to this day i can remember what my momma used to say:\n“we're fighting for a better world, not just for better pay\nand if we stick together then we'll win this fight in time\nso long as we don't walk across each other's picket lines” \n\n\n--MiScHiEf BrEw--","chords":["G","C","D","Em"],"chord_diagrams":{"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"Em":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,0,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,0,0,0]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}