REFRAIN:
Overtime [3X]
I've been working overtime
All the time I'm working overtime
Just set some leftovers on the stove and I'll heat 'em up when I get in
I'll keep the TV on low, try hard not to wake ya,
but it's gonna take 'bout an hour to unwind
Now don't worry, all the bars be already closed by the time I'm getting off
So, I'm coming straight home, and I promise I'll drive slow if it's wet
REFRAIN (Kiss the kids for me)
You know it ain't been easy
We came down here all the way from Detroit, spent some time in Beaumont,
and spent a whole year in Shreveport
Now we're here in Houston and I got a good job
The kids been in the same school for six months
Ya know, I think if I can just put in a few months working these hours
we'll put things together here
REFRAIN (Gotta keep the car moving)
Now I got two weeks of 7-12's looking me straight in the eye
The man says I'll be sucking sludge out of a pit
at the water plant, just off 225 'bout a mile up from Red Bluff
14 days of my lungs burning from ammonia fumes
4 AM, stuck on the graveyard shift
The lifthose on the crane's busted and I'm sittin' here
3 hours in the smokestack wishin' I was home, asleep in the air conditioning
REFRAIN (Just watch me work)
I know how rough it's been for you, hon
I know I've been gettin' to bed 'bout a half hour before
you gotta get up and hustle the kids off to school,
and that I've been doing it for months now,
but we need the money, and I've been workin' hard
I've been workin' for you and the kids
I've been workin' hard for America, and
you know, I believe that's important, too.
REFRAIN
credits
from Let's Have Fun,
released July 24, 2013
Tom Wheeler, Vocals, Harmonica & Lyrics
Susan Greene, Vocals,Broken Dishes & Lyrics
Mort Shapiro- Vocals
Lisa Fredenthal- Vocals
Pad Mclaughlin- Guitar & Piano
Jeff Skoller-Bass
Bill Wheeler- Drums
Guy Geduldig: Synth
Mark Higuera-Fake Steel Guitar
Engineer-Tom Mallon
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