Company Man

F G Dm F G Am C G Dm Started working here when I was twenty-one C G Dm Summer of '56, my life had just begun C G Dm Back then this place was some place to be F G Am Thought I could grow with the company C G Dm Never took a dime, never raised a fuss C G Dm Right is right, even for those of us C G Dm Who make a dollar while the man makes ten, F E They say hard work pays off in the end F C Everything I got I got with my own hands Dm F G Am Never wanted to be no company man F G Dm F G Am C G Dm (So I) Kept my eyes open and my mouth shut C G Dm Saw my workload increase and my pay cut C G Dm But I bought a house, started a family F G Am Still had some faith in the company C G Dm Hard times hit '67 late C G Dm Devil must've opened up the floodgates C G Dm My wife, she left me for some other guy F E In my heart, guess I always knew why F C She was never gonna’ understand Dm F G Am I never wanted to be no company man F G Dm Dm F G Am F G Dm Dm F G Am C G Dm ‘79 brought a dose of reality C G Dm We'd all heard the rumors about the company C G Dm One day they shut us down, throughout the south F G Am And keeping my job meant moving out C G Dm Got hired on at the local factory C G Dm Couldn't see uprooting my whole family C G Dm Never thought I'd be starting over at this stage F E Taking shit from some punk half my age F C No retirement, no hospital plan Dm F G Am Never wanted to be no company man F G Dm F G Am F G Dm F G Am C G Dm Long since retired, now, from the factory C G Dm Hardly ever think about the company C G Dm Kind ‘a lonesome, now the kids are grown F G Am Moved away, families of their own F C Got me a little house and a piece of land Dm F G Am Never wanted to be no company man F C Sometimes in this world you gotta’ make a stand Dm F G Am Never wanted to be no company man F G Dm F G Am F G Dm F G Am