transcribed by Damian Rossi 
 
rossi@corplink.com.au 
 
WORKING CLASS MAN -- JIMMY BARNES 
 
INTRO: 
 
I  B  I  B  I  E  I  E  I  G#m  I  G#m  I   E  I  F#  I 
 

VERSE 1: 
       B 
Working hard to make a living. 
        E 
bringing shelter from the rain. 
  C#m                  G#m 
A father's son left to carry on. 
      E               B 
Blue denim in his veins. 
E F#                    B 
Woah he's a working class man. 
 

I  B  I  B  I  E  I  E  I 
 

VERSE 2: 
      B 
He's a steel time deciple. 
      E 
He's a legend of his kind. 
      C#m           G#m 
He's running like cyclone  
          E                 B 
across the wild made Western sky. 
E F#m                    B 
Woah he's a working class man. 
 

I  B  I  B    B/Bb  I 
 
     E                   B  
He believes in God and Elvis. 
   E                B 
He gets out when he can. 
   E               B 
He did his time in Vietnam , 
      G#m         B 
still mad at Uncle Sam. 
       E             F# 
He's a simple man with a heart of gold 
     D#m       E 
in a complicated life. 
 

G#m         F#              B 
Oh, He's a working class man 
 

I  G#m        F#  I  B  I 
 
I  G#m        F#  I  E  I 
 
      B 
Well he loves a little woman, 
      E 
some day he'll make his wife. 
C#m            G#m 
Saving all the overtime, 
      E            B 
for the one love of his life. 
       B 
He ain't worried about tomorrow, 
         E 
because he just made up his mind. 
C#m                 G#m 
Life's too short for burning bridges, 
      E           B 
take it one day at a time. 

 
E F#                    G#m 
Woah he's a working class man 
E F#                    B 
Woah he's a working class man 
   E 
oh yeah,  
       G#m 
yes he is 
 

I  E  I  F#  I 
 
                    B 
Well he's a working class man. 
E 
oh. 
         C#m         G#m                  E 
ma ma ma ma ma ma ma ma ma ma ma ma ma ma ma 
  F#                        B 
I tell you he's a working class man. 
                       E 
Working class, working class man. 
G#m 
yes he is 
                            E 
Working class, working class man. 
      F#                        B 
I wanna tell you he's a working class man. 
                       E 
Working class, working class man. 
      G#m 
ma ma ma 
                       E 
Working class, working class man. 
      F#                        B 
I gotta tell you he's a working class man 
                       E 
Working class, working class man. 
G#m                           E 
      Working class, working class man. 
  F#                        B 
I tell you he's a working class man. 
                       E 
Working class, working class man. 
   G#m 
oh yeah 
                       E 
Working class, working class man. 
  F#                           B 
I tell you he's a working class man.