V1
I sing a song all the live long day
Breaking ground and baling hay
Sandy loam turns o'er the steel
John Deere plow in a new cut field
Ch
I am the working man
Take nothing out of the federal hand
I'll make my final stand
I am the working man
V2
I work the seams in a ground coal mine
Drill and heave, black number 9
Man that auger, fire in the hole
Longwall sheared, haul out the coal
V3
It's dawn to dusk for 6 days long
Work so hard, can't do no wrong
Pray my son still works the land
And dies like me, a hard-working man
