{"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":2021501,"song":"We Have Fed You All For A Thousand Years","artist":"Utah Phillips","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/2021501-we-have-fed-you-all-for-a-thousand-years-chords-by-utah-phillips/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/2021501?type=chord","rating":4.93442,"votes":14,"content":"[Verse 1]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                         [ch]D[/ch]        [ch]E[/ch]\r\nWe have fed you all for a thousand years,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]B[/ch]               [ch]D[/ch]       [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd you hail us still unfed,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                 [ch]D[/ch]        [ch]E[/ch]\r\nThough there's never a dollar of all your wealth.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]B[/ch]             [ch]D[/ch]       [ch]A[/ch]\r\nBut marks the workers' dead.[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]D[/ch]                   [ch]A[/ch]\r\nWe have yielded our best to give you rest[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]B[/ch]             [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAnd you lie on crimson wool.[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]A[/ch]                     [ch]D[/ch]        [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAnd if blood be the price of all your wealth,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]B[/ch]                 [ch]D[/ch]       [ch]A[/ch]\r\nGood God! We have paid in full![/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 2]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                           [ch]D[/ch]       [ch]E[/ch]\r\nThere is never a mine blown skyward now.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]B[/ch]                 [ch]D[/ch]        [ch]A[/ch]\r\nBut we're buried alive for you.[/tab]\r\n[tab]                             [ch]D[/ch]         [ch]E[/ch]\r\nThere's never a wreck drifts shoreward now,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]B[/ch]              [ch]D[/ch]      [ch]A[/ch]\r\nBut we are its ghastly crew.[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]D[/ch]                      [ch]A[/ch]\r\nGo reckon our dead by the forges red[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]B[/ch]                 [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAnd the factories where we spin.[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]A[/ch]                          [ch]D[/ch]      [ch]E[/ch]\r\nIf blood be the price of your cursed wealth,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]B[/ch]                 [ch]D[/ch]      [ch]A[/ch]\r\nGood God! We have paid it in![/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 3]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                         [ch]D[/ch]        [ch]E[/ch]\r\nWe have fed you all for a thousand years -[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]B[/ch]                [ch]D[/ch]        [ch]A[/ch]\r\nFor that was our doom, you know;[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                  [ch]D[/ch]       [ch]E[/ch]\r\nFrom the days when you chained us in your fields[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]B[/ch]               [ch]D[/ch]     [ch]A[/ch]\r\nTo the strike a week ago.[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]D[/ch]                    [ch]A[/ch]\r\nYou have taken our lives, our husbands and wives,[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]B[/ch]                   [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAnd we're told it's your legal share.[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]A[/ch]                          [ch]D[/ch]      [ch]E[/ch]\r\nBut if blood be the price of your lawful wealth,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]B[/ch]                 [ch]D[/ch]        [ch]A[/ch]\r\nGood God! We have bought it fair![/tab]","plain_text":"[Verse 1]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 2]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 3]","chords":["A","D","E","B"],"chord_diagrams":{"A":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,2,3,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,2,0]},"B":{"barres":[2],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,1,2,3,4,1],"frets":[-1,2,4,4,4,2]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"E":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,1,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,1,0,0]}}}