Bm F# Bm F# They closed up the sooty gates of Ayres and Company Bm F# E7 We stood on the picket line, my Jennifer and me Bm F# E7 We blocked the street, now the lorries come and turn about G There's nothing getting in there and there's nothing getting out D G D G Oh, she's just a tender thing, she's risking life and limb Bm A G My sweetheart's on the barricade D G D G My heart it skips a beat, there'll be fighting in the street Bm A G But hungry folk forget to be afraid F# Bm F# My sweetheart's on the barricade And here come the managers to hit us on the sly And tinpot generals with glory in their eyes Owners, moaners, Judases and Janes But righteousness is in our eyes, we've got no time for games In her manner she is mild and fairly just a child My sweetheart's on the barricade For a fair wage in her hand, the equal of a man She'll stand front rank in the parade My sweetheart's on the barricade Instrumental verses D A She's running leaflets through the alley D A F# She's passing hymn books at the rally. Halleluiah! G Friends and neighbours, won't you join the cause D Drill it in the tiny minds of them that make the laws G That workers are human, we're really just the same E7 We've got to have the nourishment to fill a human frame Bm G Bm G Oh, we're people not a mob and we only wants a job Bm A G My sweetheart's on the barricade Bm G Bm G We've had it up to here, too numb to feel the fear Bm A G My sweetheart's on the barricade Em F#m Em F#m My heart it skips a beat there'll be fighting in the street Em F# Bm My sweetheart's on the barricade by: Jos Duarte jtduarte1@gmail.com