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[Verse]
G               Cadd9        G           Cadd9
Standing on the floor in the city of the spindles
G        Cadd9        D
Got me a job, lift me up to the middle
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The Offering, it painted a very pretty picure,
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Work at the mills held the promise of the Scripture

      Em               C
But a girl like me was worked to the bone
     G                     D
Your fingers bled and your body moaned
Em         C               G                 D               Dsus4  D
14 hours a day and then my paycheck was just half of the men

G       Cadd9       G          Cadd9
Looking down with oppression's face,
     G       Cadd9      D
That pile of money they steal and waste
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Then they said they'd have to cut our pay so
   G         Cadd9               D  G
We broke our cage and formed the FLRA

[pre-chorus]
         Em                       C
Oh, they said, "What a waste of a pretty girl
   G             D
to let the labor flag unfurl."
  Em                       C
I said, "What more can you take from me?
  G                   D         Dsus4  D
I own my hands and my dignity."

[chorus]
   Em                        C
So pass me a match and we'll strike it on the ground
          G         D/F#    D
And we'll head back down to Boston Town
Em                              C
We can start a fire and they'll never put it out
          G         D/F#    D      G
And we'll head back down to Boston Town.

[Instrumental]
G  G  Cadd9  G  Cadd9  G  Cadd9  D
G  Cadd9  G  Cadd9  G  Cadd9  D  Dsus4  D

[pre-chorus]
     Em                       C
They said, "What a waste of a pretty girl
   G             D
to let the labor flag unfurl."
  Em                       C
I said, "What more can you take from me?
  G                   D         Dsus4  D
I own my hands and my dignity."

[chorus]
   Em                        C
So pass me a match and we'll strike it on the ground
          G         D/F#    D
And we'll head back down to Boston Town
Em                              C
We can start a fire and they'll never put it out
          G         D/F#    D
And we'll head back down to Boston, oh
Em                        C
Pass me a match and we'll strike it on the ground
      G         D/F#    D
We'll head back down to Boston Town.
Em                              C
We can start a fire and they'll never put it out
          G         D/F#    D
And we'll head back down to Boston,
  Em   C  G   D
Ohhhh, ooooo, oooh

[Instrumental]
Em  C  G  D  Dsus4  D

[a capella, N.C.]
So pass me a match and we'll strike it on the ground
And we'll head back down to Boston Town
Em                              C
We can start a fire and they'll never put it out
          G         D/F#
And we'll head back down, oh
Em                              C
We can start a fire and they'll never put it out
      G         D/F#    D      G
We'll head back down to Boston Town
          C         G       D      G
And we'll head back down to Boston Town
          C         G       D      G
And we'll head back down to Boston Town