Hozier – Work Song Ukulele Chords
Voice Range: F – A# (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#Â Â Lay me gently in the cold dark Cmearth
Gm  No grave can Fhold my body down
A#Â Â 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#Â Â Lay me gently in the cold dark eaCmrth
Gm  No grave can Fhold my body down
A#Â Â I’ll crawl home to her
Gm  When my Ftime comes around
A#Â Â Lay me gently in the cold dark eaCmrth
Gm  No grave can Fhold my body down
A#Â Â 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#Â Â Lay me gently in the cold dark eaCmrth
Gm  No grave can Fhold my body down
A#Â Â I’ll crawl home to her
Gm  When my Ftime comes around
A#Â Â Lay me gently in the cold dark eaCmrth
Gm  No grave can Fhold my body down
A#Â Â I’ll crawl home to her
Outro: A#  Cm  x4
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