A5 C#5 F#5
All they said, don't disturb your head
D5 E5 A5
About the work we do
A5 C#5 F#5
Just stay in school, someday you'll do
D5 E5 A5
What we couldn't do
A5 C5 D5
But run boy run in the summer sun
G5
On a summer day
A5 C5 D5
You know what you know and you can't wait to grow
G5 E5
Be on your way
A5 C#5 F#5
I could only understand that my dad's a good man
D5 E5 A5
And he's glad payday
A5 C#5 F#5
Now high school plan, be a motor city man
D5 E5 A5
Working night or day
A5 C#5 F#5
No matter who you are, you've got to have a car
D5 E5 A5
In the USA
A5 C5 D5
Something aint right about the billboards filing
G5
Down the big highway
A5 C5 D5
Now hard times again, and good working men
G5 E5
Are sittin? home all day
A5 C#5 F#5
I know this plant's closing down and I'm leaving this town
D5 E5 A5
I'll be gone payday
A5 C5 D5
Yeah the red lights and green lights that lighted my home
G5
Are gonna light my way
A5 C5 D5
Goodbye to the park and the corner after dark
G5 E5
Where I lost my faith
A5 C#5 F#5
Let the factories all fall down to the mother ground
D5 E5 A5
I'll be gone payday
Yeah, I've done all I can I'm a Motor city man
And I'm on my way
Said I'm on my way
I said I'm on my way