Work Song Ukulele Chords

Hozier – Work Song Ukulele Chords


Voice Range: FA# (1 octave + 6 half tones) – how to use this

 

Intro: A#   Cm   x8

 

Verse:
A#Boys workin’ on empty   Cm
A#Is that the kinda way to face the burning heat?   Cm
A#I just think about my baby   Cm
A#I’m so full of love I could barely eat
A#There’s nothing sweeter than my baby   Cm
A#I’d never want once from the cherry tree   Cm
A#Cause my baby’s sweet as can be   Cm
A#She’d give me toothaches just from kissin’ me

 

Chorus:
Gm   When my Ftime comes around
A#   Lay me gently in the cold dark Cmearth
Gm   No grave can Fhold my body down
A#   I’ll crawl home to her

 

Verse:
A#Boys, when my baby found me   Cm
A#I was three days on a drunken sin   Cm
A#I woke with her walls around me   Cm
A#Nothin’ in her room but an empty crib
A#And I was burnin’ up a fever   Cm
A#I didn’t care much how long I lived   Cm
A#But I swear I thought I dreamed her   Cm
A#She never asked me once about the wrong I did

 

Chorus:
Gm   When my Ftime comes around
A#   Lay me gently in the cold dark eaCmrth
Gm   No grave can Fhold my body down
A#   I’ll crawl home to her

 

Gm   When my Ftime comes around
A#   Lay me gently in the cold dark eaCmrth
Gm   No grave can Fhold my body down
A#   I’ll crawl home to her

 

Verse:
A#My babe would never fret none   Cm
A#About what my hands and my body done   Cm
A#If the Lord don’t forgive me   Cm
A#I’d still have my baby and my babe would have me
A#When I was kissin’ on my baby   Cm
A#And she put her love down soft and sweet   Cm
A#In the low lamp light I was free   Cm
A#Heaven and hell were words to me

 

Chorus:
Gm   When my Ftime comes around
A#   Lay me gently in the cold dark eaCmrth
Gm   No grave can Fhold my body down
A#   I’ll crawl home to her

Gm   When my Ftime comes around
A#   Lay me gently in the cold dark eaCmrth
Gm   No grave can Fhold my body down
A#   I’ll crawl home to her

 

Outro: A#   Cm   x4