I Wanna Job - Abner Jay

I wanna job

I just wanna work

I don’t wanna play with you

No, no, I just wanna work with you

I don’t wanna socialize

I don’t wanna apologize

I have ten lovely kids

And a most beautiful wife

You know, during the thirties and forties when wages were low, I worked twelve

hours a day, sometimes even more.

Now them unions got organized and the pay is

good!

I can’t get no job now, because they say I’m no damn good!

Then, too, they say you got to be a relative to join the union.

Now how in the hell can I be a relative?

But when they was payin' 30 cents an

hour I worked as a plumber, pipe fitter, rigger, meld maker, tool and dye maker,

carpenter and sealant finisher, technician, electrician, wallboard hanger,

and painter!

Now they payin' for three to six dollars an hour.

Every time I

apply for a job, hmph, tell me to come back tomorrow.

When some of my other

brotherlings can’t even read nor write, but they all got jobs!

Some of 'im even

workin' day and night.

Holdin' down two jobs when I can’t even get one!

Biggest joke I ever heard, this thing they call civil rights.

Listen, man,

I don’t wanna fuss nor fight, I’m not that type.

All I want is a job,

I’ll work day or night.

I don’t wanna play with you, I just wanna work with

you

Well, I’m six feet tall

Two hundred and twenty pounds

Small in the shoulders, wide in the hips

I got big strong muscles

Big thick lips

Get my message!

Get it straight!

All I want’s a job and I ain’t gon' wait!

I wanna job

I just wanna work

I don’t wanna play with you

No, no, I just wanna work with you

I don’t wanna socialize

I don’t wanna apologize

I have ten lovely kids

And a most beautiful wife

Listen, man!

All I want, Lord knows, all I want is a J-O-B.

A doggone,

good cottonpickin' job, sittin' down drinkin' booze.

Hahaha!