Blue Collar Man

from the Styx LP "Pieces of Eight"



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 and father, my wife and my friends

You're 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 nights, 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 head it was

I close my eyes and maybe I'm already there.





Transcribed by Rich Kulawiec, rsk@ecn.purdue.edu