Drinking Song From The Home Stretch Cifras

[Verse 1]
        C                Am        F         G
It was somewhere in the suburbs of Philadelphia
  C                Am           F            G
A house was gutted, added onto six times its weight
 C                Am        F         G
About a week to go until the move-in date
     F                     C       G
And everybody runnin' in a six-day race
 
[Verse 2]
          C                  Am           F             G
There was bangin', there was buzzin' Everybody on their knee
C       Am           F         G
Running behind, everyone can agree
    C            Am                  F              G
Yet four o'clock arrived and someone brought back a case
        F                     C          G
And the power went out in the whole damn place
 
[Chorus]
F                            C
Property is theft until the thieves are away
F                                   C
If we did this in a month, we'd be arrested and detained
F                                      C   B Bb    A
For draggin' all our brains beyond the barbed wire chain
     F          G        C
And drinking on private land
 
[Verse 3]
       C                Am              F           G
From the foreman to the laborers to the migrants to me
C             Am                 F              G
Stop drop and wrap up, pull up a bucket, have a seat
C                Am               F         G
Tattered T's and ragged jeans all gathered around
        F                                    C                  G
Finally sayin' something more than, "Move your van, I'm pullin' out."
 
[Verse 4]
  C                Am        F         G
And there was something all of us had seen
       C        Am               F                 G
The owner was a creep Something greedy stuck in his teeth
       C                Am            F           G
You see, anyone that needs a nine-car garage with heat
   F                             C             G
Ain't never was and never will be no friend to me
 
[Chorus]
N.C
We're singing
F                            C
Property is theft until the thieves are away
F                                   C
If we did this in a month, we'd be arrested and detained
F                                      C   B Bb    A
For draggin' all our brains beyond the barbed wire chain
     F         G        C
And drinking on private land
 
[Bridge]
F                              C
Well, toss the empties in the garden
F
The scapers will scrape 'em out when they come back to dig in
G
Maybe leave a cap beneath the root
G
As proof that we exist, oh my
 
[Verse 5]
       C                Am                  F               G
Well a foreman and a painter laugh and they find some solid ground
       C                      Am                 F                 G
Seems they both hail from the same bars Side of tracks and side of town
       C                      Am             F                         G
You know, come to think of it We'll all make lefts out of the driveway today
     F                          C      F
You-know-who makes a right and speeds away
 
[Verse 6]
  C      Am        F         G
Well, I say cheers
   C      Am        F         G
With our cold sweaty beers
C           Am             F         G
We won't be allowed around here
  F                           C                       G
When those gates all close And then security takes the wheel
 
[Outro]
  C                Am                F          G
But that's another time and we'll be on another job
   C                Am              F                               G
Just don't call me, man, when your joints crack And your pipes all clog
   C            Am        F           G
I scrape off my watch And if the boss calls,
           F                G       C
I'll say "we're drinking on private land!"
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