Work Song Chords & Tabs

by Hozier

[Version Description]
Strumming Patterns:
Verse:
BPM: 62
Denominator: 4
Triplet: No
Measures: [1, 202, 202, 1, 1, 202, 202, 1, 1, 202, 202, 1, 1, 202, 202, 202]
Chorus:
BPM: 62
Denominator: 4
Triplet: No
Measures: [1, 202, 1, 202, 1, 202, 202, 1, 1, 202, 1, 202, 1, 202, 202, 202]

[Intro]
| Bb   Cm | Bb   Cm |
| Bb   Cm | Bb      |
| Bb   Cm | Bb   Cm |
| Bb   Cm | Bb      |

[Verse 1]
Bb                   Cm
Boys workin' on empty
   Bb                                          Cm
Is that the kinda way to face the burning heat?
Bb                        Cm
I just think about my baby
    Bb                                
I'm so full of love I could barely eat
Bb                                  Cm
There's nothing sweeter than my baby
    Bb                                  Cm
I'd never want once from the cherry tree
Bb                            Cm
'Cause my baby's sweet as can be
    Bb                                     
She give me toothaches just from kissin' me

[Chorus]
Gm       F                 
When, my, time comes around
Bb                             Cm   
Lay me gently in the cold dark earth
Gm           F                
No grave can hold my body down
Bb                    
I'll crawl home to her

[Verse 2]
Bb                         Cm
Boys, when my baby found me
Bb                               Cm
I was three days on a drunken sin
Bb                             Cm
I woke with her walls around me
Bb                                   
Nothin' in her room but an empty crib
Bb                          Cm
And I was burnin' up a fever
  Bb                               Cm
I didn't care much how long I lived
Bb                                 Cm
But I swear I thought I dreamed her
    Bb                                       
She never asked me once about the wrong I did

[Chorus]
Gm       F                 
When, my, time comes around
Bb                             Cm   
Lay me gently in the cold dark earth
Gm           F                
No grave can hold my body down
Bb                    
I'll crawl home to her
Gm       F                 
When, my, time comes around
Bb                             Cm   
Lay me gently in the cold dark earth
Gm           F                
No grave can hold my body down
Bb                    
I'll crawl home to her

[Verse 3]
Bb                           Cm
My babe would never fret none
 Bb                                 Cm
About what my hands and my body done
Bb                          Cm
If the Lord don't forgive me
    Bb                                          
I'd still have my baby and my babe would have me
Bb                           Cm
When I was kissing on my baby
    Bb                                Cm
And she put her love down soft and sweet
Bb                          Cm   
In the low lamp light, I was free
Bb                              
Heaven and hell were words to me

[Chorus]
Gm       F                 
When, my, time comes around
Bb                             Cm   
Lay me gently in the cold dark earth
Gm           F                
No grave can hold my body down
Bb                    
I'll crawl home to her
Gm       F                 
When, my, time comes around
Bb                             Cm   
Lay me gently in the cold dark earth
Gm           F                
No grave can hold my body down
Bb                    
I'll crawl home to her

[Outro]
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| Bb   Cm | Bb   Cm | Bb