Named by Rolling Stone Magazine as one of 2003's Top 20 Guitarists of all-time and the recent recipient of both an Ivor Novello Award for Songwriting and the 2006 BBC Lifetime Achievement Award, the iconic British folk rock legend is one of the world's most critically acclaimed and prolific songwriters. His work is admired and recorded by such artists as Bonnie Raitt, David Byrne and Elvis Costello. From his teenage years as a founding member of the 1960's pioneering group Fairport Convention to duo work with his then-wife
¡Cuatro años de duro trabajo!Este mes de mayo cumplimos cuatro años al aire. Seguimos trabajando en la difusión de este maravilloso instrumento, ¡gracias por participar en nuestra historia!
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
Instrumental verses
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