Eric Bogle – No Use Or Him chords

[Intro]

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[Verse]

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My father was a big strong man, he worked hard all his life

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He was always in the whisky glass and never out of strife

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He called no man his master, and very few his friend

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A proud and stiff-necked man he was, he’d never bowed nor bend

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But they broke him in the end, when they'd no use for him

 

[Chorus]

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For they took away his job when they'd no use for him any more

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After nearly thirty years they kicked him out the door

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But they let him keep his railway jacket, overcoat, and cap

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And a pension of nine bob a week, he was lucky to get that

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And they nearly broke his heart, when they'd no use for him

 

[Verse]

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Now I spent much of my childhood days up in that signal box

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High in my father's castle, twenty feet above the tracks

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And crash would go the signals as he flicked them with his hand

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And the mighty cars of steam and steel would stop at his command

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And oh, but it was grand, when they had a use for him

 

[Chorus]

C                                        G               C

But they took away his job when they'd no use for him any more

                                G

After nearly thirty years they kicked him out the door

         F                                  C           Am

But they let him keep his railway jacket, overcoat, and cap

        F                                 C            G

And a pension of nine bob a week, he was lucky to get that

          F      C          G                    C

And they nearly broke his heart, when they'd no use for him

 

[Verse]

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When you're fifty-five years old and youre looking for some work

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Nobody wants to know your face no-one gives you a start

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So I watched him growing older and more bitter every day

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As his pride and self-respect, well they slowly drain away

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There was nothing I could say - they had no use for him

 

[Chorus]

C                                         G               C

For they took away his job when they'd no use for him any more

                                G

After nearly thirty years they kicked him out the door

         F                                  C           Am

But they let him keep his railway jacket, overcoat, and cap

        F                                 C            G

And a pension of nine bob a week, he was lucky to get that

          F      C          G                    C

And they nearly broke his heart, when they'd no use for him

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Yes I know they broke his heart when they'd no use for him.

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