We Have Fed You All For A Thousand Years Chords & Lyrics - Utah Phillips

[VERSE 1]
[A]We have fed you all for a [D]thousand [E]years,
And you hail us [Bm]still unf[A]ed,
Though there's never a dollar of [D]all your [E]wealth.
But marks the [Bm]workers' [A]dead.
We have [D]yielded our best to [A]give you rest
And you [Bm]lie on crimson [E]wool.
And if [A]blood be the price of [D]all your [E]wealth,
Good God! We have [Bm]paid in [A]full!

[VERSE 2]
[A]There is never a mine blown [D]skyward [E]now.
But we're buried al[Bm]ive for [A]you.
There's never a wreck drifts [D]shoreward [E]now,
But we are its [Bm]ghastly [A]crew.
Go [D]reckon our dead by the [A]forges red
And the [Bm]factories where we [E]spin.
If [A]blood be the price of your [D]cursed [E]wealth,
Good God! We have [Bm]paid it [A]in!

[VERSE 3]
[A]We have fed you all for a [D]thousand [E]years -
For that was our [Bm]doom, you [A]know;
From the days when you chained us [D]in your [E]fields
To the strike a [Bm]week ag[A]o.
You have [D]taken our lives, our [A]husbands and wives,
And we're [Bm]told it's your legal [E]share.
But if [A]blood be the price of your [D]lawful [E]wealth,
Good God! We have [Bm]bought it [A]fair!