Damn The Working Man

[Verse 1]
My hands are dirty
My hands are strong
My hands can hold a shovel
All day long
My hands can put the work in
But they can't make a living anymore
Goddamn the working man
Goddamn the working poor

[Verse 2]
I can build a giant building
I can earn a decent wage
But the people who work inside of them
Make me feel like I'm stuck in a different age
From a time before computers
Where you'd work with your body and your mind
Goddamn the working man
Goddamn the working life

[Chorus]
Goddamn the working man
To struggle every day
While the suits and ties move money around
And somehow that's worth a hundred times my pay
Goddamn the working man
They've taken so much away
Where there's a few folks getting richer every year
While the rest of us stays the same

[Verse 3]
I put a nine-hour in the kitchen
Where the ovens'll make you fry
I need some new shoes bad, but all my extra cash
Goes to a two-pack habit and a mobile line
Sometimes I feel like walking
'Til I finally reach the end
Goddamn where I started and goddamn where I'm at
And goddamn where it all ends

[Chorus]
Goddamn the working man
To struggle every day
While the suits and ties move money around
And somehow that's worth a hundred times my pay
Goddamn the working man
They've taken so much away
There's a few folks getting richer every year
While the rest of us stay the same

[Verse 4]
In the coal mines and the steel mills
And on job sites across this land
Hard folks toil to pick up the scraps
That fall from the twenty-first century's hands
Like ol' John Henry
They got machines they say can't be beat
Well, John Henry died swingin'
Am I even on my feet?

[Chorus]
Goddamn the working man
To struggle every day
While the suits and ties move money around
And somehow that's worth a hundred times my pay
Goddamn the working man
They've taken so much away
There's a few folks getting richer every year
While the rest of us stay the same

[Outro]
With so little to show for a job well done
My pride has turned to shame