Gary Jeffries - Middle Class Man Lyrics
My daddy was a factory manNearly all his life giving everything he canI’d seen the good and I’d seen the badEven though I was quite youngI couldn’t get what he’d been throughTill my own family was begunNo one cares if you live or dieWhat you do when you don’t haveThis whole world’s become money ranA heartless, greedy landEven though I am quite proudOf being an American ManTell me what the hell went wrongMiddle class manBlue collared workersIt seem we’ve been forgottenAnd cheated from this landA middle class manBlue collared workersIt seems we’ve been forgottenYeahMiddle class manWell I opened the ---- to the news todayAnd started reading our front pageA hundred ninety six men in my hometownThey all laid off before the Christmas DayIt seems the jobs had been given awayTo foreign countriesWhere the wages are lower than a middle class manSo we all live in povertyNo one cares if you live or dieWhat you do when you don’t haveThis whole world’s become money ranA heartless, greedy landEven though I am quite proudOf being an American ManTell me what the hell went wrongMiddle class manBlue collared workersIt seem we’ve been forgottenAnd cheated from this landMiddle class manBlue collared workersIt seems we’ve been forgottenYeahMiddle class man
