Working Class Hero - Original-Tommy Roe

[ti:Working Class Hero - Original] [ar:Tommy Roe] [al:Tommy Roe's The Folk Singer] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Working Class Hero - Original - Tommy Roe [00:06.75]Well he works hard on the highway underneath the burning [00:11.44]Sun [00:12.29] [00:12.91]And his hands are hard and calloused [00:15.64] [00:16.17]From the work that he has done [00:18.42] [00:19.28]He pulls a dragline 'cross the country on a flatbed [00:23.73]Trailer truck [00:25.68]He picks cotton down in Texas [00:28.99]In the fields where he grew up [00:31.59]He doesn't have much education but he takes that in [00:36.78]Stride [00:38.20]And he won't ask noone for nothing [00:40.45] [00:41.35]'Cause he's a man with a lotta pride [00:43.83] [00:44.57]He's a working class hero [00:47.69]He's a man he's America [00:50.15] [00:50.69]He's a working class hero [00:53.98]He's a man he's America [00:56.80] [01:02.12]You can see him on the scaffold hanging twenty stories [01:07.04]High [01:08.17]He's the builder of the building [01:11.55]That's growing in the sky and his [01:15.13]Spirits on the railroad where the sweat from his brow [01:19.47]Was shed [01:20.73]And in the coal mines in Virginia [01:22.99] [01:23.92]Where he works until he's dead [01:26.74]He doesn't have much education but he takes that in [01:32.22]Stride [01:33.40]And he won't ask noone for nothing [01:36.61]'Cause he's a man with a lotta pride [01:39.80]He's a working class hero [01:42.00] [01:42.92]He's a man he's America [01:44.94] [01:46.12]He's a working class hero [01:48.46] [01:49.09]He's a man he's America [01:51.44] [02:07.16]Well you can see him in the stockyards in Chicago [02:10.29]And St Louis [02:12.76]And on the docks in san francisco [02:16.26]And down in houston too [02:18.56] [02:19.22]Man most like a mountain 'cause his shoulders are so [02:23.83]Strong [02:25.53]He demands respect and gets it [02:28.62]He won't let you do him wrong [02:31.01] [02:31.65]He doesn't have much education but he takes that in [02:36.77]Stride [02:38.08]And he won't ask nobody for nothing [02:41.49]'Cause he's a man with a lotta pride [02:43.58] [02:44.44]He's a working class hero he's a man he's America [02:49.93] [02:50.52]He's a working class hero he's a man he's America [02:56.29] [02:57.11]He's a working class hero [02:59.95]He's a man he's America [03:02.53] [03:03.33]He's a working class hero [03:06.50]He's a man he's America [03:08.49] [03:09.78]He's a working class hero [03:12.47] [03:12.99]He's a man he's America