Tonalité : F minor
Verse 1
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I made this song about a boy
Em
who lived in my house
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D
He started organizing working
Em
people into unions at sixteen
Gm
Em
He was born and raised in Springfield,
Massachusetts
He led an unemployed demonstration when
G
Em
he was sixteen in Springfield
Later he went to Birmingham, Alabama
And worked amongst the white
Bm
and Black workers there
Em
Organizing for better conditions
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C
When we had our trouble in Kentucky
Em
He came up to Kentucky, helping
the mine strike
And I got acquainted with him
And he helped us first successful
youth conference in the South
Am
He's a friend, got killed
G
I made this song about him
Em
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Hope you like it
Bb
Em
Comrades, listen to my story
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Bm
Workers, listen to my song
F
Em
Bm
I'll tell you of a hero
Em
Am
Em
Who's now dead and gone
F#
Em
I'll tell you of a worker
Am
D
Em
Whose age was just nineteen
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F
Em
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He was the strongest union man
Bm
That I have ever seen
F#
Em
Bm
Harry Simms, he was
Em
a pal of mine
Bm
We labored side by side
Em
Expecting to be shot on sight
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Am
F#
Or taken for a ride
G
Em
Bm
F#
By the dirty capitalist gun thugs
G
Em
Who roamed from town to town
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Bm
To shoot and kill our comrades
Em
Bm
Where'er they may be found
Em
Bm
F#
Harry Simms and I was parted
Em
Bm
At five o'clock that day
Em
"Be careful, my dear comrade"
F
F#
To Harry I did say
Em
"Well, I must do my duty"
Was his reply to me
F#
Em
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G
"If I get killed by the gun thugs
Em
Bm
G
F
Please don't grieve over me
F#
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Just remain a faithful worker
Em
Bm
B
Dear comrade, do be wise
Em
F
Em
Remain a faithful worker
F#
Em
Dear comrade, do be wise
F#
Em
Bb
Em
Help destroy this rotten system
B
Bm
Don't fail to organize"
Em
F#
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D
He was walking up the railroad
Em
track
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One bright, sunshiny day
Em
He was young and handsome
F
Em
F#
And his step was light and gay
Em
F#
B
We did not know the gun
Em
thugs
F#
Was a- waitin' on the way
Em
Bb
Em
To take our dear young comrade's life
Bb
This bright, sunshiny day
F
Em
Bb
Harry Simms was killed on Brush Creek
Em
Am
Bm
In nineteen and thirty- two
F
Em
He organized the miners
F#
Em
In the good ol' NMU
He fought for the union
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G
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That's all that he could do
Em
Bm
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F
He died for the union
D
Em
Also for me and you
F#
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D
Now comrades, we must file today
Am
That one thing we must do
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We'll organize all the miners
In the good ol' NMU
Em
G
We'll get a million vo lunteers
F
For the YCL
And sink this rotten system
In the deepest pits of hell
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