A
Will we get cold and hungry will times be very bad
A                                 B7                    E
When we're needin' bread and meat where we gonna get it dad
      A               A7         D            Dm
We'll get it from the man in the house on the hill
       A             E          A
Yes we will from the man on the hill


[Verse 2]
A
Ploughin' time is over still the fields are bare
A                               B7              E
How we gonna make a livin' with twenty acres to share
     A            A7            D          Dm
I'll beg for more land from the man on the hill
      A                 E          A
Yes I will I'll ask the man on the hill


[Verse 3]
A
I ain't got no Sunday shoes that I can wear to town
A                              B7              E
Papa reckon the boss has got a pair of hand-me-downs
     A              A7         D            Dm
I'll go and ask the man in the house on the hill
      A                 E          A
Yes I will I'll ask the man on the hill


[Verse 4]
A
Maybe he will help us maybe we'll get by
    A                                  B7            E
But who's gonna pay the dyin' bills if we all should die
      A               A7         D           Dm
We'll leave it to the man in the sky when we die
          A               E          A
Yes we'll leave it to the man in the sky