Night Shift - Bill Morrissey
The bar was packed for a Tuesday night
the Bruins were on TV
everybody in the place was tight
make no exception for me
I've been drinking to my traveling days
I should have been at work long ago
but tonight I'm just not coming in
tonight I just can't go
[Chorus]
I should be making shoes on the night shift but
I can't drive in through the snow drifts
that's what I told them at the factory
I wonder how the boys on the night shift
ever got along without me
Well the guys I work with are lifers here
they talk shotguns and TV
they can call me names in French or English
and they do it frequently
and their wives, they don't smile much
but their hearts are made of gold
they run their families but make it look
like they do what they are told
[Repeat Chorus]
So bartender pour me another shot
and back it with a beer
tonight I am thanking heaven
I can still get out of here
because for a while I thought I could settle down
then I called my own bluff
well the road gets longer as I get older
but live still got the stuff
[Repeat Chorus]
© 1985 by Bill Morrissey