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Lyrics for Honest Working Man by Unknown:
| | | Artist: | Unknown |
| | Album: | Unknown | | Track: | Honest Working Man | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 158 | | | | Lyrics: | The Honest Working Man
chorus:
'Way down in East Cape Breton, where they knit
the sock and mitten
Chezzetcook is represented by the husky black and tan.
May they never
be rejected, and home rule be protected
And always be connected with the honest working
man!
1. What raises high my dander, next door lives a Newfoundlander
Whose wire
you cannot stand her, since high living she began,
Along with the railroad rackers, also the
codfish packers,
Who steal the cheese and crackers from the honest working
man.
2. When leaves fall in the autumn and fish freeze to the bottom,
They take a
three-ton schooner and go round the western shore;
They load her with provisions, hard tack
and codfish mizzens,
The like I never heard of since the downfall of Bras
d'Or.
3. The man who mixes mortar gets a dollar and a quarter,
The sugar-factory
worker, he gets a dollar ten,
While there's my next-door neighbor, who subsists on outside
labour,
In the winter scarcely earns enough to feed a sickly hen.
4. They cross
the Bay of Fundy, they reach her ona Monday:
Do you see my brother Angus? Now tell me if you
can.
He was once a soap-box greasman, but now he is a policeman
Because he could not
earn a living as an honest working man.
From the Penguin Book of Canadian Folk Songs,
Fowkes
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