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Robot Killed The Working Man

Zach Bryan

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Robot Killed The Working Man

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You don't know what hard times are, daddyHard times are when the textile workersaround this country are out of workThey got four or five kids and can't pay their wagescan't buy their foodHard times are when the auto workers areout of work and they tell 'em go homeAnd hard times are when a man has workedat a job thirty years, thirty yearsThey give him a watch, kick him in the buttAnd say, "Hey, a computer took your place, daddy"This place don't smell like Winston's and whiskey no moreThе feet don't creep and creak thehard oak of a harmonious floorAnd Grandma's old garden ain't what it usеd to beThere's rats on tomatoes and holes in the leavesFell in the yard where Granddad parked his carBefore driving us to drive-ins and breaking our heartsThem quarters quit coming, that engine quit runningAnd that truck just stayed sittingwith six kids in the kitchenEven though he was well-trained, well-read, and worked hardThe robot killed the working manTook the nail and hammer right out of his handsSealed up the coffin, sold off the landReplaced the good book with machines in their handsSooner or later, more soon than notThem homegrown tomatoes all ripe and then rotWith no rhyme or reason, no helping handThe day the robot killed the working manAnd this place don't look like whatit looked like when I was a kidCan't you see what a giant step for humanity did?And all of them calluses for palaces built in the sky, boyMean nothing to the machine onthe day the working man dies, boyThe robot killed the working manTook the nail and hammer right out of his handsSealed up the coffin, sold off the landReplaced the good book with machines in their handsSooner or later, more soon than notThem homegrown tomatoes all ripe and then rotWith no rhyme or reason, no protest to standThe day the robot killed the working manAnd brick by brick, them Mullen boys built this townAnd brick by brick, them bastards keep tearing me downThere's no one to be angry at every time a working man fallsJust more ads for gambling and more ads for more of it allThe robot killed the working manTook the nail and hammer right out of his handsSealed up the coffin, sold off the landReplaced the good book with machines in their handsSooner or later, more soon than notThem homegrown tomatoes all ripe and then rotWith no rhyme or reason, no helping handThe day the robot killed the working man
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