Blue Collar Man (Long Nights) Lyrics

Subject: TAB:Blue Colllar Man -STYX
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 95 09:58:00 PST
TITLE: Blue Collar Man
GROUP: Styx
MANF : A&M CD3224
A line of X's stand for a muted strum, in a vain attempt to
represent rhythm.
The keyboard intro can be simulated (and is later played):
(Guitar 1)
(Guitar 2)
(verse)
Give me a job, give me security. give me a chance to survive
My mother an father, my wife and my friends I see them laugh in my face
I'm just a poor soul in the unemployement line, my God I'm hardly alive
But I've got the power, and I've got the will - I'm not a charity case.
I'll take those
Long nights, impossible odds. Keepin my eye on the keyhole. If it takes
All night to be just what I am I'm gonna be a blue collar man
Once more thru the keyboard riff, then thru the verse again.
Make me an offer, that I can't refuse.
Make me a respectable man.
This is my last time in the unemployement line,
so like it or not I'll take those...
then A muted tacit on D5, C5, Bb5, and A:
...man. Keepin my mind on a
Paradise. Can it be all I
better life. Where
heard it was? I
happiness, is only a heartbeat
close my eyes, and maybe I'm already
A first time second time
away.
there.
solo and repeat.