A blues tune about trading the time of your life to get enough money to survive
blues
boogie
harmonica
king
philbo
Story behind the song
This is about spending so much of your life working that you start to lose sight of the things that really matter.
Lyrics
Been many many years working every day
Putting in my time, bringing home my pay
Everybody tells me it's got to be that way
But I keep thinking
There's got to be a way around these dues
And I keep going back there,
Doing the working man blues
I watched my father working 40 years
Paying his bills, keeping his family near
One day they told him here's the news you feared
As hard as you worked for us
Now we've got no use for you
You put In your time for us
Doing the working mans blues
Now I got a house and wife
and three kids of my own
And I had to keep 'em fed and love 'em as they'd grown
Send them out in the world to build castles of their own
Putting in the weeks and years
Doing the working mans blues
Years go by, here I sit
Still paying working man dues
I'm still working, paying my dues
Feel like I'm walking in my father's shoes
Those boys in the suits they just don't have a clue
And I'm still working
Paying the working man dues
Every day's another day
Singing the working mans blues
Working man's blues
Working man's blues