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作曲 : Charlie King |
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My job makes me crazy, I'm always behind, |
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Even though I am not one to shirk. |
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And some fuzzy folksinger repeats in my mind |
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That my life should be more than my work. |
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Well, I like the work that I do, |
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I don't mind earning my pay, |
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But there's so much to do when the workday is through. |
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Bring back the eight-hour day. |
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Say you work at a white-collar job, |
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You get paid at a fixed monthly rate, |
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But you come in for meetings a half hour early, |
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You're working a full hour late. |
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Then you sit for an hour in traffic, |
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With the rest of the overtime drones, |
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There's a latchkey kid you must chase off to bed |
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'Fore you eat up cold supper alone. |
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Oh, bring back the eight-hour day. |
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When did we give it away? |
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There's so much to do when the work day is through. |
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Bring back the eight-hour day. |
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There's a factory worker we know. |
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Joe Hill called him "Mr. Block." |
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If the foreman forgot him, he'd work 'til he dropped |
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And he'd never punch out on the clock. |
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Now they lay off ten workers a week. |
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Some are working half-time with no frills. |
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Mr. Block doesn't care, he's got money to spare. |
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Let the rest of the world go to hell! |
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Well, did you know that the workers in Flint |
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Went on strike to climb out of this hole? |
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Where half the town works sixty hours a week |
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While the other half rots on the dole? |
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What good is a double-time check |
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When your town and your family is shot? |
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We need some enjoyment, we want full employment. |
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We will not be bullied or bought. |
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We say: bring back the eight-hour day. |
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When did we give it away? |
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There's so much to do when the work day is through. |
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Bring back the eight-hour day. |
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When I was a kid, mom stayed home |
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And we lived on dad's blue-collar pay. |
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Our standard of living was decent and sweet, |
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Just as good as what I've got today. |
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Now my wife has a good-paying job, |
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And me, well, I'm doing OK, |
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But we're putting out ninety-nine hours a week. |
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Tell me who the hell's getting my pay? |
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Hey: bring back the eight-hour day. |
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When did we give it away? |
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There's so much to do when the work day is through. |
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Bring back the eight-hour day. |
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They've got cellular phones for your car. |
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They've got notebook PC's for your lap. |
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If you crawl off to sleep you stay close to your beeper. |
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Now why do we stand for this crap? |
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They tell you you've got to compete. |
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No! we're tired from footing the bill. |
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Eight hours for work, eight hours for rest, |
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Then eight hours for what we will. |
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A hundred and ten years ago, |
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In Chicago in Haymarket Square, |
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They gathered from shipyards, from mine and from mill, |
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Just to march in the sun and the air. |
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They'd been slaving from dawn until dusk |
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But not on the first of May, |
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'Cause you can't smell the flowers when you're working twelve hours, |
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So they struck for an eight-hour day. |
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Hey, bring back that eight-hour day. |
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Bring back the five-day week. |
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When did we give it away? |
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How did it become an antique? |
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I like the work that I do. |
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I don't mind earning my pay, |
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But there's so much to do when the work day is through. |
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Bring back the eight-hour day. |
