Corries – The Bricklayers Song chords ver. 2

This is a correction of phoenix1984's upload
Capo wherever's comfortable for your voice - it's in different places in every 
recording I've heard.

     C                                G               CDear Sir I write this note to you to tell you of my plight
    F                 C         GFor at the time of writing it, I'm not a pretty sight
    F           C                  F               AmMy body is all black and blue, my face a deathly grey
        C                              G            CAnd I write this note to say why I am not at work today

        C                                    G               CWhile working on the fourteenth floor some bricks I had to clear
      F                     C             GBut tossing them down from such a height was not a good idea
       F            C               F             AmThe foreman wasn't very pleased, he is an awkward sod 
         C                                G            CAnd he said I had to cart them down the ladders in me hod

        C                                   G           CWell clearing all these bricks by hand, it was so very slow
         F          C          GSo I hoisted up a barrel and secured a rope below
    F               C             F               AmBut in me haste to do the job, I was too blind to see
         C                                  G          CThat a barrel full of building bricks was heavier than me

     C                              G               CAnd so when I untied the rope the barrel fell like lead
       F             C                 GAnd clinging tightly to the rope, I started up instead
     F            C             F            AmI shot up like a rocket, and to my dismay I found
       C                           G            CThat halfway up I met the bloody barrel coming down

           C                          G                 CWell the barrel broke me shoulder, as to the ground it sped
     F                 C                  GAnd when I reached the top I banged the pulley with me head
       F                 C                   F             AmBut I clung on tightly numb with shock from this almighty blow
            C                                         G              CWhile the barrel spilled out half its bricks some fourteen floors below

C                                       G             CWhen these bricks had fallen from the barrel to the floor 
    F                   C              G                    I then outweighed the barrel and so started down once more
        F                  C           F                Am But I clung on tightly to the rope me body racked with pain 
      C                            G           CAnd halfway down I met the bloody barrel once again

          C                               G                CNow the force of this collision halfway down the office block
  F                C               GCaused multiple abrasions and a nasty case of shock
        F                  C             F                  AmBut I clung on tightly to the rope as I fell towards the ground
        C                               G                    CAnd I landed on the broken bricks the barrel had scattered round.

    C                                 G                    CNow as I lay there on the ground I thought I'd passed the worst
          F              C                GBut the barrel hit the pulley wheel and then the bottom burst
    F                       C           F             AmA shower of bricks rained down on me I didn't have a hope
      C                                     G                    CAs I lay there bleeding on the ground I let go of the bloody rope

      C                            G               CThe barrel now being heavier so started down once more
     F             C            GIt landed right across me as I lay there on the floor
    F                    C              F           AmIt broke three ribs and my left arm and I can only say
   C                               G           CI hope you`ll understand why I am not at work today