"Congratulations Joe" by Chuck Ragan
Album: Los Feliz

The whole song is pretty easy, in the end the slower rhythm gets a little tricky when 
play and try to sing along. Wonderful song, hope you enjoy my first tab. This one here is 
in the right key how Chuck plays it on the record and also live on stage.


Intro: E (whole time until he starts singing, listen to the strumming, he lifts up his 
middle finger while he's strumming and hammers it down).
Verse 1:
EWoke (022100@1)up one day
and made his way down
       Bto (x2444x@1)the water front as he
did all the days
        Ain (x02220@1)his 44 years                Eas (022100@1)longs as the ships made it in

Estands (022100@1)for a cause
stands for a union
    Bfor (x2444x@1)another day is gone
a dying breed of workers
    Awho (x02220@1)lived to carry on           Ewho (022100@1)died for the age that we're in


Chorus:
C#m (Des minor)
in a cloudy haze
    Ethe (022100@1)fog drifted in
    Aand (x02220@1)men wore his colors
     Bwho (x2444x@1)chose to begin
C#m (Des minor)
as a younger man
Eworking (022100@1)through his days
   Ato (x02220@1)carry home the food
   Bto (x2444x@1)carry home the pay


Verse 2:

Woke up one day
and made his way down
to the water front as he
did all the days
in his 44 years
as long the ships made it in

the best day was the one
milestone in a marathone
on that oakland waterfront
well deserved reward
for a hard working one
served and now deserves
whats to come


Chorus:

in a cloudy haze
the fog drifted in
and men wore his colors
who chose to begin
as a older man
working through every day
to carry home the food
to carry home the pay

End:
(slower)
A (x02220@1)             B (x2444x@1) we all have a cause
             Eworth (022100@1)waging war
              C#m(Des (x13321@4)minor)
worth making peace to keep
A (x02220@1)             B (x2444x@1) we all have a love
              Ewhatever (022100@1)that is
           C#m(Des (x13321@4)minor)
or whom is thee to seek
A (x02220@1)             B (x2444x@1) there comes a day
        Eif (022100@1)were lucky enough
        C#m(Des (x13321@4)minor)
and the cards fall our way, i pray
A (x02220@1)               B (x2444x@1) to sit with the birds
             Eand (022100@1)take the boots off
A (x02220@1)               B (x2444x@1) to sit with the birds
             Eand (022100@1)take the boots off