Chords for Redgum - Killing Floor (If You Don't Fight You Lose) Remix

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[Fm] _ _ [Cm] _ _ [Eb] _ _ [Fm] _
Joe spoke no English, [Cm] but he had a dream, [F] and he saved up most of [Cm] his pay.
[F] Bring his wife and six kids [Cm] from Lebanon, [Eb] and settle down here [F] to stay.
You could feel the prison [Cm] of his loneliness, [Fm] he wouldn't see them [Cm] for years.
He [Fm] kept Franny behind the [C] compressed air tanks, [Eb] and he got it when the coast [F] was clear.
[Cm] _ _ [Eb] _ _ [Fm] _ _ Nick the Greek [Cm] collected tropical fish, [F] had to be a [Cm] character too.
_ [F] Smuggled in [Cm] paramedics to break the law, [Eb] and he fed them on [F] kangaroos.
Bob's pied with his [C] hand, pulled by a moustache, [F] said he stood from [Cm] Dad's hand.
[F] Pushed a tank [Cm] through the Sahara desert, [Eb] said they made him the [F] leading hand. _ _
_ _ _ [Eb] And the summer nights [Bb] just were long and cruel, [Cm] Charlie changed most [Bb] cigars.
[F] David swerved in his speckled paint mask, as he gazed out [Eb] at the stars.
[Cm] _ _ _ _
[F] Crazy [Cm] Charlie was a Yugoslav, [F] his old straight-edge Chevy [Cm] balloon.
[F] His ambition was to [Cm] live on a hippie commune, [Eb] when they told him about [F] free love.
Fred had been a [Cm] farmer and a heavyweight champ, [F] hands like a [Cm] slump-jump twirl.
[F] Through the [Cm] earth with the thrust of his [Eb] arm, he was loading on the paint [F] line now.
_ _ _ _ _ [Eb] And the poet made a [Dm] noise every Friday night, [Cm] at the bar of the [Bb] Bish Hotel.
[F] Down in [G] pipes and chewing the fat, [F] till the ten o'clock [Eb] closing bell.
[Cm] _
[F] It was only [C] rumour till the foreman [F] came, and hiding his [C] shame with a cough.
[F] He said they're cutting back [C] down to one shift [Eb] now, they're gonna have to [F] lay you off.
_ _ [Bb] _ [F] _ _ [Eb] Bill held his [Bb] gauge and dropped the [Cm] brandy and spat it out [Bb] at his feet.
[F] Bob's good, Bob's [Gm] still looking undistract, [F] nicks more for an hour in quick.
[Cm] _ _
[F] Anger was [Cm] spent in a rush of [F] fire, and then smouldered out [Cm] of mind.
[F] When they shook hands [Cm] on that last great [Eb] day, it was in his [C] way reserved. _
_ _ _ _ _ [Fm] A few days later I saw old Joe, he'd looking like he'd aged ten years.
Drunk on the [C] tiles of the Staghart [Eb] Hill, and he couldn't hold [F] back the tear. _ _
_ _ _ [Eb] Let it go, to be [Bb] schooling heavyweight [Cm] starts, I remembered [Bb] what he'd said.
[F] There's no giving [Gm] up on that killing [F] floor, if you don't [Eb] fight you're dead.
[Cm] _ _ _ _
If you work with your hands for your livelihood, [Fm] someday you might have to [Cm] choose.
[Fm] And the class war rages on the [Cm] factory floor.
_ [F] If you don't fight you lose. _
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[Cm] _ [Eb] If you don't fight you [F] lose. _ _ _
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If you don't [F] fight you lose. _ _ _
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[Eb] If you don't fight [F] you lose.
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[Eb] If you don't [F] fight you lose.
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[F] _ _ [Cm] _ _ [F] _ _ [Cm] _
[Eb] If you don't fight [F] you lose.
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