WORK SONG (Single Version)

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

When does it stop so you can relax?

Get up every morning work for your money

There’s a bar right down the street

After the 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

When does it stop so you can relax?

Get up in the morning work for your money

No one help you out

You’re stuck like millions working everyday

Just work work work work

Work work work work

Work work work work work

It won’t stop

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 seems the same you did your work

Work work work work

Work work work work

Skafish – Lead Vocals, Piano, Lead Guitar

Larry Mazalan - Guitar, Slide Whistle, Vocals

Karen Winner - Guitar, Adapted Slide Guitar, Vibraslap,

Vocals, Chorus Co-Lead Vocal

Mark Winner - Electric Piano, Organ, Vocals

Greg Sarchet – Bass Guitar, Bugle, Vocals

Larry Mysliwiec - Drums

Written in 1977 by Skafish

© 1978 Skafish (Skafish Music/BMI)