All You Fonies Chords by Dropkick Murphys
Intro
G
Verse 1
C
Come all you friends and workers
C
A tale I’ll tell to you
C Am
Of how we built our union
G C F G
You call the NMU
Verse 2
C G F
We fought the goons and gun thugs
C G F
Around the ocean shores
C Am
I guess I got my head caved in
G C G
A dozen times or more
Chorus
C G
All you fonies
(Bound to lose)
C
All you fonies
(Bound to lose)
F G C F G
All you fonies
(Bound to lose, lose, lose)
Verse 3
C G F
You had a phony set up
C G F
You called the SIU
C Am G
We had a ratty ship and a crummy bunk
C F G
With roaches in our stew
Verse 4
C G F
We fought against the weather
C G F
And the stooges too
C Am
To win a clean bunk and mess hall
G C G
For newly-comes like you
Chorus
C G
All you fonies
(Bound to lose)
C
All you fonies
(Bound to lose)
F G C
All you fonies
(Bound to lose, lose, lose)
C F G C F G
All you fonies
(Bound to lose, lose, lose)
[Interlude
C
For me to try to change this whole big mess around by myself
G
I wouldn’t last longer than a snowball in hell
C
But there’s a hundred thousand of me now
F
And we fought like hell to get here
G C
So you fight like hell to keep what we shed blood to earn
Bridge
Am F C
For eight hours a day
(and overtime pay)
G Am
We battled it out with you big shot men
F
We’ve seen times that looked pretty dark
G
Until we brought the union in
(Until we brought the union in)
Chorus
C G
All you fonies
(Bound to lose)
C
All you fonies
(Bound to lose)
F G C G
All you fonies
(Bound to lose, lose, lose)
C G
All you fonies
(Bound to lose)
C
All you fonies
(Bound to lose)
F G C
All you fonies
(Bound to lose, lose, lose)
C F G C
All you fonies
(Bound to lose, lose, lose)
C F G C
All you fonies
(You're about to lose, lose, lose)
(Bound to lose, lose, lose)