Working real hard in the heart of the city
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Noon day sun feeling hot and sweaty
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Trying to make my pay, trying to make my monthly rent
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Working real hard for the US dollar
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Living real poor gonna make me holler
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I don't wanna live in the street like some folks do.
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I was raised up on the corner
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In front of a grocery store
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Shining shoes with the Daily News
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For two pence on the floor
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Given a chance I'd go back to the days of a simpler time
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Cause this old world's gone crazy
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And I'm about to lose my mind
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Working real hard in the heart of the city
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Noon day sun feeling hot and sweaty
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Trying to make my pay, trying to make my monthly rent
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Working real hard for the US dollar
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Living real poor gonna make me holler
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I don't wanna live in the street like some folks do.
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My brother drives delivery right down on Dolphin Street
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Has a little house by the railroad track
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Kinda small but it was neat
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The police came and got him for robbing a liquor store
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And even though he didn't do it
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They got what they came for
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Working real hard in the heart of the city
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Noon day sun feeling hot and sweaty
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Trying to make my pay, trying to make my monthly rent
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Working real hard for the US dollar
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Living real poor gonna make me holler
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I don't wanna live in the street like some folks do.
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It's a poor man but life is bitter sweet
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Doesn't wanna lose that good thing that he's got
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But the same old government that pays you every week
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Will come and take your home away and put you in the street
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Working real hard in the heart of the city
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Noon day sun feeling hot and sweaty
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Trying to make my pay, trying to make my monthly rent
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Working real hard for the US dollar
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Living real poor gonna make me holler
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I don't wanna live in the street like some folks do.
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World Gone Crazy
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Doobie Brothers |