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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
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