Tonalidad: C major•
Verse 1
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G
F
Am
C
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Music
C
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C
Am
C
I used to work with a guy named
Frankie
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C
We were butter strippers
down at the
Challenge
F
Am
Creamery
C
Stripping the cardboard off 70
F
-pound cubes of butter
C
Yeah, it was hot back then,
Frankie
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Manny gets so angry, he'd say
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G
See what the women make me do
Am
And then he'd break off a splinter
F
from a dirty wooden pallet
C
And stick it like a knife in one of them
G
big ol' butter cubes
Am
That's what work is
F
That's what love is
Am
G
A little pleasure and a little misery
F
G
Am
Now every time it gets hard out here I think of
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Am
L .A. back in 1963
C
F
Then I got a job working
for the city of
Englewood
C
Runnin' the chipper,
F
chippin' limbs off of trees.
C
I worked with a guy named
Crazy
Dave
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C
Macklin, and one day he almost
F
Am
ran a tractor over me.
We were out chopping weeds near
South
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Central
C
When the riots broke out and the sky
G
turned fiery red and brown
Am
I called up my girlfriend on
a pay phone and said,
F
C
Baby, I love you, but I think
God's gonna finally burn
Gamora down
Am
F
That's what work is, that's what love is
Am
You build a house of straw
G
and the flames lick the sky
F
G
Am
Now every time I fall in love out here
I think of
C
L .A. back in 1965
Interlude 1
G
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Am
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G
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C
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Verse 2
C
F
I finally got a job driving a road truck,
C
Santa
Barbara midnight to
C
May,
F
all jacked up on coffee, cheap speed and donuts,
Am
C
F
walking around the
C
L .A. flower market in the
F
Am
rain.
And every morning I'd eat breakfast
F
at the pantry down on
Figueroa
C
The waiters were always
G
old -time ex -cons
Am
Then we'd load the truck
back up with empty
C
And drive on up the coast
through the
California
G
dawn
Am
F
That's what work is, that's what love is
Am
Two eggs over easy, on a
F
G
Every time I see the sun
Am
C
rise on the ocean I think of
G
L .A. back in 1968
Am
F
That's what work is, that's what love is,
Am
G
A little pleasure and a little misery.
F
G
Am
Now every time it gets hard out here,
I think of
C
G
Am
L .A. back in 1963.
I used to work with a guy named
Frankie
Acosta.
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