| I wanna job
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| I just wanna work
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| I don’t wanna play with you
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| No, no, I just wanna work with you
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| I don’t wanna socialize
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| I don’t wanna apologize
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| I have ten lovely kids
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| And a most beautiful wife
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| You know, during the thirties and forties when wages were low, I worked twelve
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| hours a day, sometimes even more. |
| Now them unions got organized and the pay is
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| good! |
| I can’t get no job now, because they say I’m no damn good!
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| Then, too, they say you got to be a relative to join the union.
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| Now how in the hell can I be a relative? |
| But when they was payin' 30 cents an
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| hour I worked as a plumber, pipe fitter, rigger, meld maker, tool and dye maker,
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| carpenter and sealant finisher, technician, electrician, wallboard hanger,
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| and painter! |
| Now they payin' for three to six dollars an hour. |
| Every time I
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| apply for a job, hmph, tell me to come back tomorrow. |
| When some of my other
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| brotherlings can’t even read nor write, but they all got jobs! |
| Some of 'im even
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| workin' day and night. |
| Holdin' down two jobs when I can’t even get one!
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| Biggest joke I ever heard, this thing they call civil rights. |
| Listen, man,
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| I don’t wanna fuss nor fight, I’m not that type. |
| All I want is a job,
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| I’ll work day or night. |
| I don’t wanna play with you, I just wanna work with
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| you
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| Well, I’m six feet tall
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| Two hundred and twenty pounds
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| Small in the shoulders, wide in the hips
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| I got big strong muscles
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| Big thick lips
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| Get my message!
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| Get it straight!
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| All I want’s a job and I ain’t gon' wait!
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| I wanna job
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| I just wanna work
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| I don’t wanna play with you
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| No, no, I just wanna work with you
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| I don’t wanna socialize
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| I don’t wanna apologize
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| I have ten lovely kids
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| And a most beautiful wife
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| Listen, man! |
| All I want, Lord knows, all I want is a J-O-B. |
| A doggone,
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| good cottonpickin' job, sittin' down drinkin' booze. |
| Hahaha! |