Capo 1 (Chords relative to capo)
G C Bm7 Em
Six in the morning, don't want to wake
G C Em C
Sun laying low and the world sleeping late
G C Bm7 Em
Hate like the river, runs heavy and deep
G C D G
Oh I wish that they'd sack me and leave me to sleep
G C G D (x2)
G C Bm7 Em
Five days from seven the week's hardly mine
G C Em C
The alarm clocks gone over to enemy lines
G C Bm7 Em
Waste my time working for cowards and creeps
G C D G
Oh I wish that they'd sack me and leave me to sleep
D Em
Rain strikes the window, heralds the day
C D
Rain won't you wash these eight hours away?
G C Bm7 Em
Rain feeds the river, runs heavy and deep
G C D G
Oh I wish that they'd sack me and leave me to sleep
G C G D (x2)
G C Bm7 Em
Birds at my window sing in the dawn
G C Em C
By the time that I'm home all this day will be gone
G C Bm7 Em
Spend my life sowing what others will reap
G C D G
Oh I wish that they'd sack me and leave me to sleep
D Em
Rain strikes the window, heralds the day
C D
Rain won't you wash these eight hours away?
G C Bm7 Em
Rain feeds the river, runs heavy and deep
G C D G
Oh I wish that they'd sack me and leave me to sleep
Instrumental
G C Bm7 Em
G C Em C
G C Bm7 Em
G C D G
D Em
Rain strikes the window, heralds the day
C D
Rain won't you wash these eight hours away?
G C Bm7 Em
Rain feeds the river, runs heavy and deep
G C D G
Oh I wish that they'd sack me and leave me to sleep
[Repeat last verse]
G C G D (x2)
End on G
