MEN OF WORTH

Tuning: DADGBE
Timing: 12/8 (note extra 1/2-bars)

p=pick-off, .=stop(muffle strings), s=slide, /=strum

          p            p                      .
 ------------|--02-0------|------------|------------|
 ------------|3-----3-----|0-23-20-----|------------|
 --02-42-----|---------42-|--------2---|---0-2------|
 4--------40-|------------|---------4-0|2-4---2--202|
 ------------|------------|------------|0-----0-----|
 0-----0-----|0-----0-----|5--4--2--0--|------------|


          p            p                     s   /      /
 ------------|--02-0------|------------|---------2--|---2--
 ------------|3-----3-----|0-23-20-----|---------3--|---3--
 --02-42-----|---------42-|--------2---|---------2--|---2--
 4--------40-|------------|---------4-0|2-40--------|------
 ------------|------------|------------|0----45-----|-----0
 0-----0-----|0-----0-----|5--4--2--0--|------0-----|0-----


                       p                      .
 ---0-20-----|--02-0------|------------|------------|
 2-3------2--|3-----3-----|0-23-20-----|------------|
 ----------2-|---------42-|--------2---|---0-2------|
 ------------|------------|---------4-0|2-4---2--202|
 ------0-----|------------|------------|0-----0-----|
 ------------|0-----0-----|5--4--2--0--|------------|



          p            p                     s   /      /
 ------------|--02-0------|------------|---------2--|---2--
 ------------|3-----3-----|0-23-20-----|---------3--|---3--
 --02-42-----|---------42-|--------2---|---------2--|---2--
 4--------40-|------------|---------4-0|2-40--------|------
 ------------|------------|------------|0----45-----|------
 0-----0-----|0-----0-----|5--4--2--0--|------0-----|0-----





Leave the land behind, laddie, (you've) better days to find.
The Companies have the money and they'll soon teach you the skills.
Green fields far away, laddie, the partin's in the brae:
Be a madman or a roustabout, you'll soon learn how to drill.

But who will tend the sheep when I'm far out o'er the deep
On the Neptune or the Seaquest when the snow comes to the hills?
(Instr only lines 3,4)


Leave the fishing trade, laddie, there's money to be made.
The hand-line and the Shetland Yawl, they're from a bygone day.
Come tae Aberdeen, laddie, (there's) sights you've never seen:
Be a welder on the pipeline or a fitter at Leith Bay.

But when the job is o'er, and my boat rots on the shore,
How will I feed my family when the Company moves away?
(Instr only lines 3,4)


There's harbours to be built, lads, and rigs to tow and tilt,
To rest upon the ocean-bed like pylons in the sea,
Pipelines to be laid, and a hundred different trades
That'll pay a decent livin' wage to the likes of you and me.

I ken ye're men of worth, you're the best that's in the North:
Not men of greed, but men who need the work that's come your way.
From Floddagh to Keith's Horn a new industry is born -
Now Peterhead and Cromarty will never be the same.


Note: I'm Scots in ancestry, but not nationality - place names may
be wrong or wrongly spelt - (I did consult the best maps I could
find, though :-)