[ti:Worker's Song(Album Version)]
[ar:Dropkick Murphys]
[al:blackout]
[00:11.34]Yeah, this one's for the workers who toil night and day
[00:16.37]By hand and by brain to earn your pay
[00:21.22]Who for centuries long past for no more than your bread
[00:26.27]Have bled for your countries and counted your dead
[00:30.70]
[00:40.67]In the factories and mills, in the shipyards and mines
[00:46.13]We've often been told to keep up with the times
[00:51.03]For our skills are not needed, they've streamlined the job
[00:55.83]And with sliderule and stopwatch our pride they have robbed
[01:00.60]
[01:00.81]We're the first ones to starve, we're the first ones to die
[01:05.70]The first ones in line for that pie-in-the-sky
[01:10.54]And we're always the last when the cream is shared out
[01:15.89]For the worker is working when the fat cat's about
[01:20.25]
[01:20.92]And when the sky darkens and the prospect is war
[01:25.57]Who's given a gun and then pushed to the fore
[01:30.38]And expected to die for the land of our birth
[01:35.59]Though we've never owned one lousy handful of earth
[01:39.30]
[01:40.02]We're the first ones to starve, we're the first ones to die
[01:45.53]The first ones in line for that pie-in-the-sky
[01:50.01]And we're always the last when the cream is shared out
[01:55.01]For the worker is working when the fat cat's about
[02:00.10]
[02:20.05]We're the first ones to starve, we're the first ones to die
[02:25.35]The first ones in line for that pie-in-the-sky
[02:30.13]And we're always the last when the cream is shared out
[02:34.99]For the worker is working when the fat cat's about
[02:39.76]
[02:40.03]We're the first ones to starve, we're the first ones to die
[02:44.99]The first ones in line for that pie-in-the-sky
[02:49.81]And we're always the last when the cream is shared out
[02:54.71]For the worker is working when the fat cat's about
[02:59.07]
[03:01.35]And all of these things the worker has done
[03:06.56]From tilling the fields to carrying the gun
[03:12.44]We've been yoked to the plough since time first began
[03:18.15]And always expected to carry the can