The Dirty Jobs

Written by: Pete Townshend
From: "Quadrophenia" (1973)
Tabbed by: maguri
Tuning: Standard

CHORDS
transpose: -        -3
capo:      -        3rd fret
play:      C        A
key:       C        C
     E-A-D-G-B-e         E-A-D-G-B-e
C    x-3-2-0-1-0    A    x-0-2-2-2-0
G/C  x-3-x-0-0-3    E/A  x-0-2-1-0-0
F/C  x-3-x-2-1-1    D/A  x-0-4-2-3-x

Intro

| C G/C | F/C G/C |
| C G/C | F/C G/C |

Verse

C        G/C           F/C       G/C
  I am a man who looks after the pigs
C          G/C        F/C       G/C
 Usually I get along okay
C      G/C       F/C          G/C
  I am man who reveals all he digs
C               G/C            F/C     G/C
 Should be more careful what I say

Chorus

            C   F
I'm getting put down
            C      F
I'm getting pushed round
Dm         C            Bb
 I'm being beaten every day
          C F
My life's fading
               C   F
But things are changing
Dm             C             Bb
 I'm not gonna sit and weep again

Verse

C      G/C     F/C            G/C
  I am man who drives a local bus
       C                       G/C               F/C     G/C
I take miners to work, but the pits all closed today
C              G/C      F/C            G/C
  It's easy to see that you are one of us
         C            G/C                  F/C      G/C
Ain't it funny how we all seem to look the same?

Chorus

            C   F
I'm getting put down
            C      F
I'm getting pushed round
Dm         C            Bb
 I'm being beaten every day
          C F
My life's fading
               C   F
But things are changing
Dm             C             Bb
 I'm not gonna sit and weep again

Middle 8

F         C
 My karma tells me
Bb            F
  You've been screwed again
Gm               F
 If you let them do it to you
       Eb              Bb
You've got yourself to blame
                       F
It's you who feels the pain
                      [ C ]
It's you who takes the shame

Interlude

| C G/C | F/C G/C |
| C G/C | F/C G/C |

Verse

C        G/C          F/C             G/C
  I am a young man, I ain't done very much
C                 G/C                    F/C    G/C
 You men should remember how you used to fight
C             G/C              F/C         G/C
  Just like a child, I've been seeing only dreams
    C           G/C                F/C        G/C
I'm all mixed up but I know what's right

Chorus

          C   F
I'm being put down (I'm being put down)
            C      F
I'm getting pushed round (I'm getting pushed round)
Dm         C            Bb
 I'm being beaten every day
          C F
My life's fading
           C   F
Things are changing
Dm             C             Bb
 I'm not gonna sit and weep again
                          [ C ]
I'm not gonna sit and weep again

Outro

| C G/C | F/C G/C |
| C G/C | F/C G/C |
| C G/C | F/C G/C |
| C G/C | F/C G/C |
| C G/C | F/C G/C |
| C G/C | F/C G/C |
| C G/C | F/C G/C |
| C G/C | F/C G/C |