Blue Collar Man Chords by Styx

[Start]

[Intro]
Dm F Dm Dm7 Dm D
■  ■ ■  ■   ■  ■


[Verse]
                      G       
Give me a job give me security
C                           D7
Give me a chance to survive ■ 
D          D7               G7               
I'm just a poor soul in the unemployment line
C                 Am   
My God I'm hardly alive


[Chorus]
   D7                   G                  
My mother and father my wife and my friends
C                            
You see them laugh in my face
D   D7   A7 D7                G                  
But I've ■  got the power and ■ I've got the will
C                     
I'm not a charity case
          D7                               
I'll take those long nights impossible odds
Bb      C             D       D7
Keeping my eye in the keyhole ■ 
      G                    Dm            
If it takes all that to be just what I am
         Dm                        
Well I'm gonna be a blue collar man


[Verse]
Dm7 D            D7    G                  
■   ■ Make me an offer that I can't refuse
C       D7             
Make me respectable man
Am         D                G            C   
This is my last time in the unemployment line
              C                  
So like it or not I'll take those


[Chorus]
D7                         
Long nights impossible odds
Bb         C       D       
Keeping my back to the wall
                D7                      D 
If it takes all night to be just what I am
         Dm       D7               
Well I'm gonna be a blue collar man


[Verse]
                C7   C      C7   C
Keeping my mind on a better life ■
Bb                       D7        Am7 
When happiness is only a heartbeat away
D                 D7             C       
■ Paradise can it be all I heard ■ it was
Bb                            A7           
I close my eyes and maybe I'm already there


[Inst]
D7 G7 C D7 C D D7 G
■  ■  ■ ■  ■ ■ ■  ■
C Am7 G7 D7 G C D D7
■ ■   ■  ■  ■ ■ ■ ■ 


[Solo]
Am7 D7 G C Am
■   ■  ■ ■ ■ 


[Chorus]
          D7                               
I'll take those long nights impossible odds
Bb         C           D7  
Keeping my back to the wall
               D             
All that to be just what I am
         Dm                        
Well I'm gonna be a blue collar man


[Bridge]
                  Bb   
Do do do do do do do do
      Bb               
Do do do do do do do do
            C          
Do do do do do do do do
   C                   
Do do do do do do do do


[Chorus]
D7                                         
I'll take those long nights impossible odds
Bb      C             D      
Keeping my eye to the keyhole
      D7                                
If it takes all that to be just who I am
         Dm                    
Well I'm gonna be a blue collar
Bb         Dm         
Gotta be a blue collar


[Outro]
Bb    Dm               D   Dm
Gonna be a blue collar man ■ 
Dm7 Dm                   
■   ■  Alright Believe it
F Dm F Dm F C
■ ■  ■ ■  ■ ■
Dm C D
■  ■ ■


[End]