[ti:Workingman's Blues #2] [ar:Bob Dylan] [al:Modern Times] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Workingman's Blues #2 - Bob Dylan [00:15.24]There's an evenin' haze settlin' over town [00:19.07]Starlight by the edge of the creek [00:22.84]The buyin' power of the proletariat's gone down [00:26.60]Money's gettin' shallow and weak [00:29.81]Well the place I love best is a sweet memory [00:33.70]It's a new path that we trod [00:37.08]They say low wages are a reality [00:40.77]If we want to compete abroad [00:44.89]My cruel weapons have been put on the shelf [00:48.37]Come sit down on my knee [00:51.80]You are dearer to me than myself [00:55.60]As you yourself can see [00:58.90]While I'm listening to the steel rails hum [01:02.98]Got both eyes tight shut [01:06.37]Just sitting here trying to keep the hunger from [01:10.16]Creeping it's way into my gut [01:13.96]Meet me at the bottom don't lag behind [01:17.64]Bring me my boots and shoes [01:20.83]You can hang back or fight your best on the front line [01:24.67]Sing a little bit of these workingman's blues [01:35.38]Well I'm sailin' on back [01:37.00]Ready for the long haul [01:39.32]Tossed by the winds and the seas [01:42.33]I'll drag 'em all down to hell [01:44.36]And I'll stand 'em at the wall [01:46.43]I'll sell 'em to their enemies [01:50.00]I'm tryin' to feed my soul with thought [01:53.38]Gonna sleep off the rest of the day [01:57.16]Sometimes no one wants what we got [02:00.97]Sometimes you can't give it away [02:04.60]Now the place is ringed with countless foes [02:08.58]Some of them may be deaf and dumb [02:12.34]No man no woman knows [02:15.66]The hour that sorrow will come [02:19.30]In the dark I hear the night birds call [02:22.77]I can feel a lover's breath [02:26.85]I sleep in the kitchen with my feet in the hall [02:30.60]Sleep is like a temporary death [02:34.32]Meet me at the bottom don't lag behind [02:38.01]Bring me my boots and shoes [02:41.21]You can hang back or fight your best on the front line [02:45.26]Sing a little bit of these workingman's blues [02:55.92]Well they burned my barn and they stole my horse [03:00.00]I can't save a dime [03:03.27]I got to be careful I don't want to be forced [03:06.77]Into a life of continual crime [03:10.47]I can see for myself that the sun is sinking [03:14.56]How I wish you were here to see [03:18.23]Tell me now am I wrong in thinking [03:21.77]That you have forgotten me [03:25.21]Now they worry and they hurry [03:26.96]And they fuss and they fret [03:28.97]They waste your nights and days [03:33.80]Them I will forget [03:36.02]But you I'll remember always [03:39.92]Old memories of you to me have clung [03:43.87]You've wounded me with your words [03:47.25]Gonna have to straighten out your tongue [03:50.54]It's all true everything you've heard [03:54.99]Meet me at the bottom don't lag behind [03:58.49]Bring me my boots and shoes [04:01.94]You can hang back or fight your best on the front line [04:05.77]Sing a little bit of these workingman's blues [04:16.79]In you my friend I find no blame [04:20.57]Wanna look in my eyes please do [04:24.76]No one can ever claim [04:27.57]That I took up arms against you [04:31.21]All across the peaceful sacred fields [04:35.59]They will lay you low [04:38.66]They'll break your horns and slash you with steel [04:42.32]I say it so it must be so [04:45.60]Now I'm down on my luck and I'm black and blue [04:49.41]Gonna give you another chance [04:53.36]I'm all alone and I'm expecting you [04:56.75]To lead me off in a cheerful dance [05:00.21]I got a brand new suit and a brand new wife [05:04.54]I can live on rice and beans [05:08.04]Some people never worked a day in their life [05:11.56]Don't know what work even means [05:15.14]Meet me at the bottom don't lag behind [05:19.15]Bring me my boots and shoes [05:22.47]You can hang back or fight your best on the front line [05:26.27]Sing a little bit of these workingman's blues