White Econoline

White Econoline

Picking lettuce down in Watsonville

Cleaning rooms in Monterey

Guard the harvest up in Humboldt

For 30 bucks a day

Squeezing every nickle, every dollar, every dime

Up and down the freeways riding in a white Econoline

Washing dishes in the morning

Collecting bottles every night

Sleeping 15 to a room right next door and out of sight

Up on Sunday morning before that sun begins to shine

Standing on the corner flagging down a white Econoline

We want it all, we want it now, no one wants to pay

If someone don’t get treated right, well we just look the other way

‘Cause we got folks to answer to, we got to watch that bottom line

So have a fresh crew waiting in a white Econoline

Well you can walk around in circles, yoked up to the grinding wheel

And two buck chuck don’t give a fuc if you drop dead in his fields

Sending every other dollar home and that gets treated like a crime

Riding up and down the freeways in a white Econoline

When the workday’s done you can get your pay

From that day’s walking boss

He might pay you, he might short you, he might just tell you to get lost

You got to go along to get along and pray that no one drops a dime

Or you’ll be riding with la migra, shackled in a white Econoline

Certain things we got to do to keep those numbers in the black

Sometimes we got to shift that load onto someone else’s back

We got folks to answer to, we got to watch that bottom line

So have a fresh crew waiting in a white Econoline