Work Song

What's the average guy gonna do?
What's the average guy gonna do?
He just has a labor job
He can't find a better job
Work all day in the steel mill
Be a cop or drive a truck
Get a four-year college degree
End up in the factory
Be the man who works all day
You get your pay
Spend it on a Friday night

Life's not great but it's not bad
You don't think much about being sad
You just do what you have to do
Work all day you got a job to do
Muscles work
Your body is as hard as rock
Hit him like a rock tonight

Drive the car through morning traffic
Punch the clock and start the day
The loud machines ring in your ear
The air is grey, your body’s aching
(Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh)
When does it stop so you can relax?
Get up еvery morning, work for your money

Therе's a bar right down the street
After work the guys meet
They're dirty and hot, they want a beer
They watch the baseball game here
Chicago Cubs will play today
They're gonna shout, "Hey! Hey!”
Blacks and whites and Mexicans
Ethnic men from Poland
Call your friends
You'll have some fun when you get drunk
Drinking with the guys tonight

Drive the car through morning traffic
Punch the clock and start the day
The loud machines ring in your ear
The air is grey, your body’s aching
(Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh)
When does it stop so you can relax?
Get up every morning, work for your money
No one helps you out
You're stuck like millions, working every day
Just work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work
Work, work, work, work, work, it won't stop
(Uh, uh) Ah (uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh)
All the men work, they're stuck in the middle
Nowhere near richness but they aren't starving
Taxes, food, car payments, electric bills
Oh, but you're not starving

Now you’re an old man
Do you get to retire?
Or do you die soon from a heart attack?
You worked your whole life and broke your back
Every day just seemed the same, you did your work
Work, work, work, work
Work, work, work, work