Lyrics:
Cat Diesel Power cap pulled down low
Makin that bacon, row by row
Can't get them muscles at the YMCA
It's from choppin' cotton, cuttin' corn
It's a big job just gettin' by with nine kids and a wife
I been a workin' man dang near all my life
I'll be working long as my two hands are fit
You can tell a lot about a man
By the woman he loves
'Cause nothing else shows a part of his soul
Like she does
And she'd be the one to swear
you take four?"
Poor boy - never say die
Things will be all right by and by
Workin' like on the mainline, workin' like the devil
The game is the same
man ain't supposed to cry)
Been workin' five days a week (Like a man)
I know I dress and I speak (Like a man)
But when my baby said goodbye
I had
and sing.
Big city girl just pass on by,
got no time for me.
Lord, I said lord I'm workin' man,
workin' on the blues.
Lord I'm workin' man,
workin
drinks with his buddies but he prays when he should
And there ain't nothing better than
Being loved by a workin' man
He don't write love letters but he
leavin'
'Cause I've left that man so many times before
By the time I make Albuquerque he'll be workin'
He'll probably stop at lunch and give me a call
we've got we've givin' it all away
But that don't make no sense to me you know who's gonna pay
It's the man in the factory workin' twelve hours a day
the time I was five there was no kid alive could ever get the best of me
Born to be a roughneck...
[ banjo ]
Well I started workin' like a regular man
"Hoe-in' ain't no fun"
You ain't got no ambition
Gone fishin' - by a shady, wady pool
Gone fishin', - man, you really play it cool
We don't wish
a Jack-of-all-trades when I'm workin' in ther shade
I'm a shade tree-fix-it man
Well I headed outa west from Arkansas my Ruby ran fine for a while
Then a rock started
music that kept me whole
Sun beatin' down through the trees, gets so hot bring a workin' man to his knees
Part of my heart, part of my soul, part
How we're gonna get enough to eat
No that the workin' man is obsolete
If things keep goin' like they seem they do
Won't be long before they're down
It's a big job just gettin' by with nine kids and a wife
But I've been a working man dang near all of my life
I'll keep on workin' long as my two
I dedicate this song to the workin' man
For ever' man that puts in a hard
Eight or ten hours a day of work and toil and sweat
Always got somebody
locks and the noise never stops
Not all day
Workin' seven to three or three to eleven
Eleven to seven
Shift work, tough work for the busy
It's a big job just gettin' by with nine kids and a wife
I been a workin' man dang near all my life
I'll be working long as my two hands are fit
It's too difficult for me
I'll just stand by my man
Very quietly
*(repeat)
*(repeat)
What makes a rooster crow every mornin' ‘fore day?
What makes a rooster crow every mornin' ‘fore day?
To let the pimps know that the workin' man is
the Lord and the law and the workin' man
We could use a little peace and satisfaction
Some good people up front to take the lead
A little less talk
day
And for every day I'm workin' on the Illinois River
Get a half a day off with pay
Old tow boat pickin' up barges
On a long hot summer day
Workin' out here on the railroad line
Breaking my back for nickles and dimes
Sweatin' in the hot sun all of the time
Well I wake up and pray that
on the corner
Singing out headlines
And a fiddler selling pencils
The sign reads: Help the blind
Comin' up the lane callin'
Workin' while the rain's
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