| Working every day into the burning sun
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| And yet I just can’t get no pay at all, no no Working so hard, with no food to eat
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| No-no clothes to cover my skin, no no They say we’re free from captivity
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| But we are still in slavery
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| They removed the chains but they use us with brains
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| Tell me why it’s got to be this way?
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| Working every day into the burning sun, yes
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| And yet I just can't get no pay at all, no no Working so hard, with no food to eat, no No-no clothes to cover my skin, no no Oh no, no-no-no-no, no- |
| no, no-no-no-no, oh no They say we're free from captivity
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| But we are still in slavery, yes
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| They removed the chains but they use us with brains
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| Tell me why it got to be this way?
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| Working every day into the burning sun, yes
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| And yet I just can’t get no pay at all, no no Working so hard, with no food to eat, no No-no clothes to cover my skin, oh yes, oh yeah
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| Woo-woo-woo yeah, whoo-oi, oh yeah
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| Working every day yeah, oh yeah, oh-whoa
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| In the burning sun, Lord, oh-oh, oh yes
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| I’m working just like a slave and we can’t get no pay
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| Only the bosses, whoa-oh, get their pay
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| Oh yes, oh-oh, oh yeah, oh-no
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| Oh yeah, oh yeah. |