{"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":995293,"song":"The Bricklayers Song","artist":"The Corries","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11624814-the-bricklayers-song-chords-by-the-corries/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/995293?type=chord","rating":4.96808,"votes":85,"content":"This is a correction of phoenix1984's upload\r\nCapo wherever's comfortable for your voice - it's in different places in every \r\nrecording I've heard.\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\nDear Sir I write this note to you to tell you of my plight[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]D7[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nFor at the time of writing it, I'm not a pretty sight[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nMy body is all black and blue, my face a deathly grey[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd I write this note to say why I am not at work today[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\nWhile working on the fourteenth floor some bricks I had to clear[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]D7[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nBut tossing them down from such a height was not a good idea[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThe foreman wasn't very pleased, he is an awkward sod [/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd he said I had to cart them down the ladders in me hod[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\nWell clearing all these bricks by hand, it was so very slow[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]D7[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nSo I hoisted up a barrel and secured a rope below[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nBut in me haste to do the job, I was too blind to see[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThat a barrel full of building bricks was heavier than me[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd so when I untied the rope the barrel fell like lead[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]D7[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd clinging tightly to the rope, I started up instead[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nI shot up like a rocket, and to my dismay I found[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThat halfway up I met the bloody barrel coming down[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\nWell the barrel broke me shoulder, as to the ground it sped[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]D7[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd when I reached the top I banged the pulley with me head[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nBut I clung on tightly numb with shock from this almighty blow[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\nWhile the barrel spilled out half its bricks some fourteen floors below[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\nWhen these bricks had fallen from the barrel to the floor [/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]D7[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] \r\nI then outweighed the barrel and so started down once more[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] \r\nBut I clung on tightly to the rope me body racked with pain [/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd halfway down I met the bloody barrel once again[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\nNow the force of this collision halfway down the office block[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]D7[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nCaused multiple abrasions and a nasty case of shock[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nBut I clung on tightly to the rope as I fell towards the ground[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd I landed on the broken bricks the barrel had scattered round.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\nNow as I lay there on the ground I thought I'd passed the worst[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]D7[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nBut the barrel hit the pulley wheel and then the bottom burst[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nA shower of bricks rained down on me I didn't have a hope[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAs I lay there bleeding on the ground I let go of the bloody rope[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThe barrel now being heavier so started down once more[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]D7[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nIt landed right across me as I lay there on the floor[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nIt broke three ribs and my left arm and I can only say[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI hope you`ll understand why I am not at work today[/tab]","plain_text":"This is a correction of phoenix1984's upload\nCapo wherever's comfortable for your voice - it's in different places in every \nrecording I've heard.","chords":["C","G","F","D7","Am","A"],"chord_diagrams":{"Am":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,2,3,1,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,1,0]},"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"D7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,2,1,3],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,1,2]},"F":{"barres":[1],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[1,3,4,2,1,1],"frets":[1,3,3,2,1,1]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}