Blue Collar Man (long Nights) Tab par Styx

Dm                        Gm
Give me a job, give me security
C                      Dm
Give me a chance to survive
                                 Gm
I'm just a poor soul in the unemployment line
C                    A
My God, I'm hardly alive

Dm                       Gm
My mother and father, my wife and my friends
C                      Dm
I see them laugh in my face
                            Gm
But I've got the power, and I've got the will
C                A
I'm not a charity case

I'll take those

Dm   Gm      C          Dm
Long nights, impossible odds
Bb         C          Dm
Keeping my eye to the keyhole
            Dm   Gm        C           Dm     
If it takes all that to be just what I am
          Bb         C           Dm 
Well, I'm gonna be a blue collar man

Dm                    Gm
Make me an offer that I can't refuse
C                    Dm
Make me respectable, man
                            Gm
This is my last time in the unemployment line
C             A
So like it or not I'll take those

Dm   Gm      C          Dm
Long nights, impossible odds
Bb         C           Dm
Keeping my back to the wall
            Dm  Gm         C           Dm
If it takes all that to be just what I am
          Bb         C           Dm
Well, I'm gonna be a blue collar man

                     C
Keeping my mind on a better life
      Bb                      Dm
Where happiness is only a heartbeat away
Dm                        C
Paradise, can it be all I heard it was
  Bb                                  A
I close my eyes and maybe I'm already there

# (Interlude x2)
Dm  Gm  C  Dm
Dm  Gm  C  A

                Dm   Gm      C          Dm
I'll take those long nights, impossible odds
Bb         C           Dm
Keeping my back to the wall
            Dm  Gm      C           Dm
If it takes all that be just what I am
          Bb         C           Dm
Well, I'm gonna be a blue collar man

Bb  C  Bb  C

    Bb          C      Bb      C
You don't understand

Bb  C  Bb  C

                Dm   Gm      C          Dm
I'll take those long nights, impossible odds
Bb         C          Dm
Keeping my eye to the keyhole
            Dm  Gm      C          Dm
If it takes all that be just who I am
       Bb          C           
Well I vow to be a blue collar 
Bb         C
Gotta be a blue collar
Bb         C           Dm
Gonna be a Blue collar man