Worker’s Song - Dropkick Murphys

[00:16.650]Yeh, this one's for the workers who toil night and day
[00:21.060]By hand and by brain to earn your pay
[00:25.550]Who for centuries long past for no more than your bread
[00:30.380]Have bled for your countries and counted your dead
[00:44.270]In the factories and mills, in the shipyards and mines
[00:48.890]We've often been told to keep up with the times
[00:53.400]For our skills are not needed, they've streamlined the job
[00:58.110]And with sliderule and stopwatch our pride they have robbed
[01:02.670]We're the first ones to starve, we're the first ones to die
[01:07.410]The first ones in line for that pie-in-the-sky
[01:11.820]And we're always the last when the cream is shared out
[01:16.470]For the worker is working when the fat cat's about
[01:21.710]And when the sky darkens and the prospect is war
[01:26.330]Who's given a gun and then pushed to the fore
[01:30.590]And expected to die for the land of our birth
[01:35.200]Though we've never owned one lousy handful of earth?
[01:39.830]We're the first ones to starve, we're the first ones to die
[01:44.710]The first ones in line for that pie-in-the-sky
[01:49.110]And we're always the last when the cream is shared out
[01:54.000]For the worker is working when the fat cat's about
[02:17.550]We're the first ones to starve, we're the first ones to die
[02:22.490]The first ones in line for that pie-in-the-sky
[02:26.950]And we're always the last when the cream is shared out
[02:31.950]For the worker is working when the fat cat's about
[02:36.540]We're the first ones to starve, we're the first ones to die
[02:41.460]The first ones in line for that pie-in-the-sky
[02:45.850]And we're always the last when the cream is shared out
[02:50.660]For the worker is working when the fat cat's about
[02:57.790]All of these things the worker has done
[03:03.520]From tilling the fields to carrying the gun
[03:08.910]We've been yoked to the plough since time first began
[03:14.940]And always expected to carry the can
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