Chords for Eric Burdon & Fire Department - Power Company (Live, 1980)

_ [Am] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
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[A] My daddy worked a [G] lifetime, yeah, _ [C] for the power company
_ _ Turn the night into day, [E] yeah, yeah, _ [A] for the power [Am] company
_ _ He _ [A] can still recall when [G] that company was gone
[C] Man was a slave, _ _ _ throughout war, torn, striped
My [E] daddy held his little electric light
[A] Power company, _ he said, listen boy
Join the union lads, [G] we'll kick you in the ass [C] Power company
_ I _ grew up with these words [E] printed on my back [A] Power [Am] company
_ Hear me singing
[F] Oh, [Dm] oh, oh, oh, _ oh [Am] Power [G] company
[Am] _ [A] _ _ [G] _
[Am] _ [F] _ Oh, [Dm] oh, oh, oh, _ oh
[A] Let me hear [G] you [A] pray
_ [G] _ _
[A] I work like a dog [G] all day, I need reduction [C] light _ _ _ _
This factory is a jail, [E] every day of your life
You [Am] know you're doing time
_ I _ bought a little car, [G] can't afford the gas
[C] House is cold and drafty and the kids grow up too fast
I look around, no future, [E] never had no past _ [Am] Power company
Sing it, sing it, sing it
[F] _ Oh, oh, [Dm] oh, oh, oh [A] Power [D] company
[A] _ _ [G] [Am] Oh, _ [F] _ _ oh, [Dm] oh, oh, _ oh
[A] Let [G] me hear you [Am] pray
[G] Free [Am] me
[F] How _ _ _ _ _
_ [A] _ _ _ _ _ [Em] _ [Am] _
_ [F] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ [Dm] _
_ [A] _ _ [Em] _ [Am] _ _ [Em] _ [Am] _
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_ [F] _ _ _ [C] _ [G] _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ this world keeps on turning [Em] every [G] day
[C] Is a mystery _
_ My _ old man gets up each morning [E] and he goes to work each day
[A] At the power [Am]
company
_ _ He still does his little job, [G] it's not very hard
[C] A computer to talk to instead of people to go to
And the bosses at the top, [E] they never seem to [Am] stop Power company
_ Hear me [F] waiting
Oh, oh, [D] oh, oh, [Dm] oh
_ _ [Am] Power [G] company
[A] _ _ [G] Oh, [Am] _ [F] _ _
oh, [Dm] oh, oh, _ oh
[A] Let me [G] hear you [Am] pray
[A] _ _ [G] _ [Am] _ [F] _ Oh, oh, [Dm] oh, oh, oh
[A] Power company
[Am] _ _ Oh, _ [F] _ _ _
[Dm] oh, oh, oh, _ [A] oh
Let me [Am] hear you pray
_ _ Yeah, why won't you be free?
_ _ The power company
Hear _ me [G] waiting
On your side
[G#] Got the [Bm] future right [Am] there
And they sure enough have destroyed the past
_ The power company
_ Yeah, yeah, yeah, [A] yeah
[G] Power _ [C] _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _
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[N] company _ _ _ _ _ _