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Foreign Jobs

Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 9:09 am
by good4somethingbum
Foreign JobsGave that barkeep my Visa, but he said he just took cashSaid he couldn’t take credit, since his computer crashedHe’d called up the hotline, but gettin’ through was hardHe couldn’t understand the guy, cos now those positions areForeign jobs for people in another landIt’s happening in ev’ry fact’ry, mill and plantMaybe they build stuff for less than the US of ABut ev’ry day it’s the little man who paysFor foreign jobsTold him I was raised up, right around TexahomaThe only imports I’ve tried, are Cuervo and CoronaBut folks are bein’ laid off, and it’s a dirty shameMy uncles lost their livelihoods, when their living becameForeign jobs for people in another landIt’s happening in ev’ry fact’ry, mill and plantMaybe they build stuff for less than the US of ABut ev’ry day it’s the little man who paysFor foreign jobsWell, that barkeep closed up, and we were parked around backI headed for my truck, he squeezed in a sub-compactHe said, “I feel bad that work, is all goin’ overseasBut with gas the way it is, I gotta drive one of theseForeign jobs from people in another landIt’s happening in ev’ry fact’ry, mill and plantMaybe they build stuff for less than the US of ABut then it makes a guy like me hafta payFor foreign jobs…Yeah, ev’ry day it’s the little man who paysFor foreign jobs…”©2007 Robert George