Capo 1 (Chords relative to capo) G5 C5 B5 E5 Six in the morning, don't want to wake G5 C5 E5 C5 Sun laying low and the world sleeping late G5 C5 B5 E5 Hate like the river, runs heavy and deep G5 C5 D5 G5 Oh I wish that they'd sack me and leave me to sleep G5 C5 G5 D5 (x2) G5 C5 B5 E5 Five days from seven the week's hardly mine G5 C5 E5 C5 The alarm clocks gone over to enemy lines G5 C5 B5 E5 Waste my time working for cowards and creeps G5 C5 D5 G5 Oh I wish that they'd sack me and leave me to sleep D5 E5 Rain strikes the window, heralds the day C5 D5 Rain won't you wash these eight hours away? G5 C5 B5 E5 Rain feeds the river, runs heavy and deep G5 C5 D5 G5 Oh I wish that they'd sack me and leave me to sleep G5 C5 G5 D5 (x2) G5 C5 B5 E5 Birds at my window sing in the dawn G5 C5 E5 C5 By the time that I'm home all this day will be gone G5 C5 B5 E5 Spend my life sowing what others will reap G5 C5 D5 G5 Oh I wish that they'd sack me and leave me to sleep D5 E5 Rain strikes the window, heralds the day C5 D5 Rain won't you wash these eight hours away? G5 C5 B5 E5 Rain feeds the river, runs heavy and deep G5 C5 D5 G5 Oh I wish that they'd sack me and leave me to sleep Instrumental G5 C5 B5 E5 G5 C5 E5 C5 G5 C5 B5 E5 G5 C5 D5 G5 D5 E5 Rain strikes the window, heralds the day C5 D5 Rain won't you wash these eight hours away? G5 C5 B5 E5 Rain feeds the river, runs heavy and deep G5 C5 D5 G5 Oh I wish that they'd sack me and leave me to sleep [Repeat last verse] G5 C5 G5 D5 (x2) End on G