Give me a job give me security

Give me a chance to survive

I'm just a poor soul in the unemployment line

My God I'm hardly alive

My mother 'n father, my wife and my friends

You've seen them laugh in my face

But I've got the power and I've got the will

I'm not a charity case



I'll take those long nights, impossible odds

Keeping my eye on the keyhole

If it takes all that to be just what I am

Well I'm gonna be a blue collar man



Make me an offer that I can't refuse

Make me respectable man

This is my last time in the unemployment line

So like it or not



I'll take those long night, impossible odds

Keeping my back to the wall

If it takes all night to be just who I am

Well I'm gonna be a blue collar man



Keeping my mind on a better life

Where happiness is only a heartbeat away

Paradise can it be all I heard it was

I close my eyes and maybe I'm already there

(repeat chorus)