Working Class Hero-Tommy Roe

[ti:Working Class Hero (Re-Recorded Version)] [ar:Tommy Roe] [al:The Very Best of Tommy Roe] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Working Class Hero - Tommy Roe [00:06.57]Well he works hard on the highway underneath the burning sun [00:12.08] [00:12.96]And his hands are hard and calloused from the work that he has done [00:19.01]He pulls a drag line across the country on a flatbed trailer truck [00:25.25]He picks cotton down in Texas in the fields where he grew up [00:31.54]He doesn't have much education but he takes that in stride [00:37.99]And he won't ask no one for nothing [00:41.08]Because he's a man with a lot of pride [00:44.39]He's a working class hero he's a man he's America [00:49.80] [00:50.45]He's a working class hero he's a man he's America [00:57.54] [01:01.83]You can see him on the scaffold hanging 20 stories high [01:07.40] [01:07.93]He is the builder of the building that's growing in the sky [01:14.22]And his spirit's on the highway where the sweat from his brow is shed [01:20.60]And in the coal mines in Virginia where he works until he's dead [01:26.95]He doesn't have much education but he takes that in stride [01:33.18]And he won't ask no one for nothing [01:36.40]Because he's a man with a lot of pride [01:39.60]He's a working class hero he's a man he's America [01:45.27] [01:45.79]He's a working class hero he's a man he's America [01:51.68] [02:06.61]You can see him in the stock yards in Chicago and St Lou [02:12.58]And on the dock in San Francisco and down in Houston too [02:18.96]He is a man most like a mountain because his shoulders are so strong [02:24.68] [02:25.28]He demands respect and gets it he won't let you do him wrong [02:31.47]He doesn't have much education but he takes that in stride [02:37.57]And he won't ask no one for nothing [02:40.54] [02:41.12]Because he's a man with a lot of pride [02:44.23]He's a working class hero he's a man he's America [02:49.93] [02:50.45]He's a working class hero he's a man he's America [02:56.84]He's a working class hero he's a man he's America [03:02.88]He's a working class hero he's a man he's America [03:08.73] [03:09.28]He's a working class hero he's a man he's America