Hozier - Work Song

Intro -x8-: A#0  Cm1
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A#2                        Cm3
1Boys workin on empty
A#4                                                Cm5
2Is that the kinda way to face the burning heat?
A#6                           Cm7
3I just think about my baby
A#8
4I'm so full of love I could barely eat
A#9                                    Cm10
5There's nothing sweeter than my baby
A#11                                      Cm12
6I never want once from the cherry tree
A#13                               Cm14
7Cause my baby's sweet as can be
A#15
8She give me toothaches just from kissin me
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Gm16           F17
11    When, my, time comes around
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12    Lay me gently in the cold dark earth
Gm20               F21
13    No grave can hold my body down
A#22
14    I'll crawl home to her
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A#23                           Cm24
17That's when my baby found me
A#25                                 Cm26
18I was three days on a drunken sin
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19I woke with her walls around me
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20Nothin in her room but an empty crib
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21And I was burnin up a fever
A#33                                   Cm34
22I didn't care much how long I lived
A#35                                    Cm36
23But I swear I thought I dreamed her
A#37
24She never asked me once about the wrong I did
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Gm38            F39
27    When, my, time comes around
A#40                                 Cm41
28    Lay me gently in the cold dark earth
Gm42               F43
29    No grave can hold my body down
A#44
30    I'll crawl home to her
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A#45                        Cm46
33My baby never fret none
A#47                                    Cm48
34G#out what my hands and my body done
A#49                            Cm50
35If the Lord don't forgive me
A#51
36I'd still have my baby and my babe would have me
A#52                             Cm53
37When I was kissing on my baby
A#54                                        Cm55
38And she put her love down soft and sweet
A#56                              Cm57
39In the lowland plot I was free
A#58
40Heaven and hell were words to me
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Gm59            F60
43    When, my, time comes around
A#61                                 Cm62
44    Lay me gently in the cold dark earth
Gm63               F64
45    No grave can hold my body down
A#65
46    I'll crawl home to her
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Outro -x4-: A#66  Cm67
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