Heart of the Working Man - Tom Russell
You know what a jackhammer does to you nerves
If you hold on a little too tight?
How 'bout a ten year marriage and a three year split
You're sleepin' alone every night?
Or wakin' up loaded in a back road ditch
With your mouth fullof gravel and sand?
We'll friend let me take you just alittle bit fdeeper
Into the heart of the working man
You know how long it takes to clean these hands
From ten hours of dirt and grease?
You know the looks you get from the barroom girls
Like you'll dirty up their pretty white sheets?
They used to preach a lot of love back in Sunday school
But l'm angry at my fellow man
So, friend let me take you just a little bit farther
Into the heart of the working man
I busted my back working late in the dark
I busted two ribs and they busted my heart
Love and hate are fighting hand in hand
Deep in the heart of this workin' man
Deep in the heart of this workin' man
I gol a jacket from a friend of mine
His name is Gary MacTell
On the back it says - "I know I'm goin' to heaven 'Cause I spent my time in Hell."
Well, that about says it all, old buddy
Repeat that whenever you can
Then carve it on my headstone
That's everything that I know
'Bout the heart of the workin' man
©1987 End of the Trail Music (ASCAP)