Richard Thompson OBE (born 3 April 1949, Notting Hill, London) is a British singer/songwriter and guitarist. Highly regarded for his guitar techniques, Thompson was awarded the Orville H. Gibson award for best acoustic guitar player in 1991. Similarly, his songwriting has earned him an Ivor Novello Award and, in 2006, a lifetime achievement award from BBC Radio. Thompson made his debut as a recording artist as a member of Fairport Convention in September 1967.
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BmF#BmF# They closed up the sooty gates of Ayres and Company BmF#E7 We stood on the picket line, my Jennifer and me BmF#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
DGDG Oh, she's just a tender thing, she's risking life and limb BmAG My sweetheart's on the barricade DGDG My heart it skips a beat, there'll be fighting in the street BmAG But hungry folk forget to be afraid F#BmE7BmF# 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
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DA She's running leaflets through the alley DAF# 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
BmGBmG Oh, we're people not a mob and we only wants a job BmAG My sweetheart's on the barricade BmGBmG We've had it up to here, too numb to feel the fear BmAG My sweetheart's on the barricade EmF#mEmF#m My heart it skips a beat there'll be fighting in the street EmF#Bm My sweetheart's on the barricade