Go to Work On Monday

I did my part in World War Two

Got wounded for the nation

Now my lungs are all shot down

There ain't no compensation

I'm gonna go to work on Monday one more time

I'm gonna go to work on Monday one more time, one more time

I'm gonna go to work on Monday one more time

Now the doctor says I smoke too much

He says that I'm not tryin'

He says he don't know what I've got

But we both know he's lyin'

I'm gonna go to work on Monday one more time

I'm gonna go to work on Monday one more time, one more time

I'm gonna go to work on Monday one more time

The last time I went near my job

I thought my lungs were broken

Chest bound down like iron bands

I couldn't breathe for chokin'

I'm gonna go to work on Monday one more time

I'm gonna go to work on Monday one more time, one more time

I'm gonna go to work on Monday one more time

Now the politicians in this state

They're nothin' short of rotten

They buy us off with fancy words

And they sell us out to cotton

I'm gonna go to work on Monday one more time

I'm gonna go to work on Monday one more time, one more time

I'm gonna go to work on Monday one more time

The doctor says both lungs are gone

There ain't no way to shake it

But I can't live without a job

Somehow I've got to take it

I'm gonna go to work on Monday one more time

I'm gonna go to work on Monday one more time, one more time

I'm gonna go to work on Monday one more time

They tell me I can't work at all

There ain't no need of tryin'

But living like some used up thing

Is just as short of dyin'

I'm gonna go to work on Monday one more time

I'm gonna go to work on Monday one more time, one more time

I'm gonna go to work on Monday one more time

Sittin' on my front porch swing

I'm like someone forgotten

Head all filled with angry thoughts

And lungs filled up with cotton

I'm gonna go to work on Monday one more time

I'm gonna go to work on Monday one more time, one more time

I'm gonna go to work on Monday one more time

I'm gonna go to work on Monday one more time

I'm gonna go to work on Monday one more time, one more time

I'm gonna go to work on Monday one more time