[ti:Workingman's Blues #2]
[ar:Bob Dylan]
[al:The Complete Album Collection Vol.1]
[by:lrc.d4321.com]
[00:15.230] There's an evening haze settling over town
[00:18.900] Starlight by the edge of the creek
[00:22.460] The buying power of the proletariat's gone down
[00:26.350] Money's getting shallow and weak
[00:29.610] The place I love best is a sweet memory
[00:33.130] It's a new path that we trod
[00:36.770] They say low wages are a reality
[00:39.350] If we want to compete abroad
[00:44.400] My cruel weapons have been put on the shelf
[00:48.070] Come sit down on my knee
[00:51.620] You are dearer to me than myself
[00:55.140] As you yourself can see
[00:58.760] While I'm listening to the steel rails hum
[01:02.500] Got both eyes tight shut
[01:06.090] Just sitting here trying to keep the hunger from
[01:09.770] Creeping its way into my gut
[01:14.050] Meet me at the bottom, don't lag behind
[01:17.120] Bring me my boots and shoes
[01:20.810] You can hang back or fight your best on the frontline
[01:24.280] Sing a little bit of these workingman's blues
[01:35.650] I'm sailing on back, ready for the long haul
[01:38.980] Tossed by the winds and the seas
[01:42.410] I'll drag them all down to hell and I'll stand them at the wall
[01:46.300] I'll sell them to their enemies
[01:49.800] I'm trying to feed my soul with thought
[01:53.550] Going to sleep off the rest of the day
[01:57.180] Sometimes no one wants what we got
[02:00.790] Sometimes you can't give it away
[02:04.440] Now the place is ringed with countless foes
[02:08.120] Some of them may be deaf and dumb
[02:11.400] No man, no woman knows
[02:15.440] The hour that sorrow will come
[02:19.140] In the dark I hear the night birds call
[02:22.790] I can feel a lover's breath
[02:26.320] I sleep in the kitchen with my feet in the hall
[02:30.300] Sleep is like a temporary death
[02:33.970] Meet me at the bottom, don't lag behind
[02:36.690] Bring me my boots and shoes
[02:41.260] You can hang back or fight your best on the frontline
[02:44.930] Sing a little bit of these workingman's blues
[02:56.680] They burned my barn, and they stole my horse
[03:00.030] I can't save a dime
[03:03.840] I got to be careful, I don't want to be forced
[03:07.300] Into a life of continual crime
[03:10.750] I can see for myself that the sun is sinking
[03:14.460] How I wish you were here to see
[03:18.430] Tell me now, am I wrong in thinking
[03:22.430] That you have forgotten me?
[03:25.690] Now they worry and they hurry and they fuss and they fret
[03:29.020] They waste your nights and days
[03:32.480] Them I will forget
[03:35.990] But you I'll remember always
[03:39.040] Old memories of you to me have clung
[03:43.430] You've wounded me with your words
[03:47.220] Gonna have to straighten out your tongue
[03:51.590] It's all true, everything you've heard
[03:55.420] Meet me at the bottom, don't lag behind
[03:58.280] Bring me my boots and shoes
[04:01.720] You can hang back or fight your best on the frontline
[04:05.610] Sing a little bit of these workingman's blues
[04:16.870] In you, my friend, I find no blame
[04:19.950] Wanna look in my eyes, please do
[04:24.000] No one can ever claim
[04:27.610] That I took up arms against you
[04:31.240] All across the peaceful sacred fields
[04:34.790] They will lay you low
[04:38.670] They'll break your horns and slash you with steel
[04:42.390] I say it so it must be so
[04:46.100] Now I'm down on my luck and I'm black and blue
[04:50.370] Gonna give you another chance
[04:53.360] I'm all alone and I'm expecting you
[04:56.690] To lead me off in a cheerful dance
[05:00.420] I got a brand new suit and a brand new wife
[05:04.030] I can live on rice and beans
[05:07.580] Some people never worked a day in their life
[05:11.570] Don't know what work even means.
[05:15.010] Meet me at the bottom, don't lag behind
[05:18.800] Bring me my boots and shoes
[05:22.350] You can hang back or fight your best on the frontline
[05:26.230] Sing a little bit of these workingman's blues