Occupation Blues Lyrics

By day I sell them my soulI work like a mole under the shopBy night I'll drink in the cold holeBut down in the nine-foot dropBy day I'm a company muleThe wage slaving foolThey chai...Read Full Lyrics

The day's been a while fadingSeems like we have slowedMy eyes are getting wearyCan barely see the roadBeen a while since we left behind the city lightsThere's just a line winding t...Read Full Lyrics

I'm not alone sitting right thereHow come I get the feeling you'd vanish into the airI love you more than anybody else, babeCan't you tell I'm an easy touch.Baby, baby, I think I l...Read Full Lyrics

Oh all the money that in my whole life I did spend, Be it mine right or wrongfully, I let it slip gladly past the hands of my friends To tie up the time most forcefully. But the bo...Read Full Lyrics

Do I want you? Yes I do Do I need you? Baby you know it's true But I ain't got nothin' that you can use So I'm sittin' on my own here, with these poor boy blues One day, baby, you ...Read Full Lyrics

There'll Be A Change In The Weather And A Change In The Scene How Is That? I'm Gonna Start Wearin' Leather And Change My Routine I'll Wear Dark Glasses Maybe A Toupee I'll Get Down...Read Full Lyrics

My whistle under the archways Still echoes down the street All the way back to Deptford days And nights down by The Creek Notes as big as river boats Still echoing through the club...Read Full Lyrics

Laughs and jokes And drinks and smokes And no lights on the stairs We were young, so young And always broke Not that we ever cared Not that we ever cared Well, the holes in the wa...Read Full Lyrics

My Saturday job pays six and six down A copy boy at the Chronicle Five cigarettes and two silver half crowns Meeting Vince at Mark Toney's in town Boy, do we get around Basil sits...Read Full Lyrics

I came in three days early To meet my boat It ain't the life of Riley But it's keeping me afloat It's quiet over Christmas If you got no place to go I got my home from river rats T...Read Full Lyrics