A Working Man Lyrics

I start my day early

A light breakfast at dawn

Crank up my truck

And in a rush I am gone

Hey, work's cut out for me

Lots of plans are set

And what the foreman wants

Is what the foreman gets

For a person off the street

This work is mighty tough

But I ain't complaining

I get paid well enough

Still, there are times I wish

I hadn't gone this way

And maybe used my head

And not my back for my pay

I'm a working man, in a working class

I get up early and I step on the gas

And I work real hard

I do the best I can

And people know me

To be a working man

I was foolish when young

I didn't want to waste any time

I let fast money

sway my judgment of life

So I

Came to construction

Left my school life behind

but now I'm stuck

In the same old grind

I got a family to support

Obligations to meet

so I'll be out there

In that hot summer heat

Work gets hard

And it hurts now and then

And I'm working twice as hard

To keep up with younger men

I'm a working man, in a working class

I get up early and I step on the gas

And I work real hard

I do the best I can

And people know me

People judge me

To be a working man

Building houses and apartments to the sky

in a way it's the same

I'm gonna work until I die

And what future is ahead

With nothing saved from behind

And if I bust my back

I'll only end up on L and I

Or get laid off

Every time the industry falls

And live on unemployment till the Boss man calls

I'm a working man, in a working class

I get up early and I step on the gas

I work real hard

I do the best I can

And people see me

People judge me

People know me

To be a working man

A Working Man