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Working Stiff Chords

by Slaid Cleaves
KeyC Capo4st fret TuningStandard Difficulty Plays397

Working Stiff by Slaid Cleaves is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C with a capo on the 4st fret. It uses the chords C, G, Am, F, Fm and E7. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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C
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Intro: C   G   C   G   C 

                 G           Am 
Where do all the sailors go 
                            F    C 
When their ships don't come in 
                         G              F 
They're all working in a five foot box 
                Fm                C 
Filing folders, punching clocks 


               G                Am 
What became of What's-Her-Name 
                      F      C 
She could sing like a bird 
                          G            F        
Someone said that she was getting out 
                                 Fm      
Cleaned up her mess and then she headed south, singing 

 
C        E7              Am     F 
I always thought I would be somebody 
    C       E7               Am      F 
And I never thought it would come to this 
    C         G              F      Fm 
Now I'm just another working stiff 


Instrumental:

Chord diagrams

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Reference tones

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Metronome

100 BPM Andante