"Congratulations Joe" by Chuck Ragan
Album: Los Feliz
The whole song is pretty easy, in the end the slower rhythm gets a little tricky when
play and try to sing along. Wonderful song, hope you enjoy my first tab. This one here is
in the right key how Chuck plays it on the record and also live on stage.
Intro: E (whole time until he starts singing, listen to the strumming, he lifts up his
middle finger while he's strumming and hammers it down).
Verse 1:
Woke up one day
and made his way down
to the water front as he
did all the days
in his 44 years
as longs as the ships made it in
stands for a cause
stands for a union
for another day is gone
a dying breed of workers
who lived to carry on
who died for the age that we're in
Chorus:
C#m (Des minor)
in a cloudy haze
the fog drifted in
and men wore his colors
who chose to begin
C#m (Des minor)
as a younger man
working through his days
to carry home the food
to carry home the pay
Verse 2:
Woke up one day
and made his way down
to the water front as he
did all the days
in his 44 years
as long the ships made it in
the best day was the one
milestone in a marathone
on that oakland waterfront
well deserved reward
for a hard working one
served and now deserves
whats to come
Chorus:
in a cloudy haze
the fog drifted in
and men wore his colors
who chose to begin
as a older man
working through every day
to carry home the food
to carry home the pay
End:
(slower)
we all have a cause
worth waging war
C#m (Des minor)
worth making peace to keep
we all have a love
whatever that is
C#m (Des minor)
or whom is thee to seek
there comes a day
if were lucky enough
C#m (Des minor)
and the cards fall our way, i pray
to sit with the birds
and take the boots off
to sit with the birds
and take the boots off