Sweetheart on the Barricade - Richard Thompson Chords
Chords: Bm, F#, E7, G, D, A, Em, F#m
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Bm F# Bm F#
They closed up the sooty gates of Ayres and Company
Bm F# E7
We stood on the picket line, my Jennifer and me
Bm F# E7
We blocked the street, now the lorries come and turn about
G
There's nothing getting in there and there's nothing getting out
D G D G
Oh, she's just a tender thing, she's risking life and limb
Bm A G
My sweetheart's on the barricade
D G D G
My heart it skips a beat, there'll be fighting in the street
Bm A G
But hungry folk forget to be afraid
F# Bm E7 Bm F#
My sweetheart's on the barricade
D A
She's running leaflets through the alley
D A F#
She's passing hymn books at the rally. Halleluiah!
G
Friends and neighbours, won't you join the cause
D
Drill it in the tiny minds of them that make the laws
G
That workers are human, we're really just the same
E7
We've got to have the nourishment to fill a human frame
Bm G Bm G
Oh, we're people not a mob and we only wants a job
Bm A G
My sweetheart's on the barricade
Bm G Bm G
We've had it up to here, too numb to feel the fear
Bm A G
My sweetheart's on the barricade
Em F#m Em F#m
My heart it skips a beat there'll be fighting in the street
Em F# Bm
My sweetheart's on the barricade
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