Give me a job, give me security

Give me a chance to survive

I'm just a poor soul in the unemployment line

My God, I'm hardly alive



My mother and father, my wife and my friends

You see them laugh in my face

But I've got the power and I've got the will

I'm not a charity case



I'll take the long night, impossible odds

Keepin' my eye to the keyhole

If it takes all that to be just what I am

Well I'm gonna be a blue collar man



Make me an offer that I can't refuse

Make me respectable, man

This is my last time in the unemployment line

So like it or not, I'll take the



Long nights, impossible odds

Keepin' my back to the wall

If it takes all night to be just what I am

Well, I'm gonna be a blue collar man



Keepin' my mind on a better life

Where happiness is only a heartbeat away

Paradise can it be all I heard it was

I close my eyes and maybe I'm already there



I'll take those long nights, impossible odds

Keepin' my eye to the keyhole

All that to be just what I am

Well I'm gonna be a blue collar man



Do do do do do do do do

(You don't understand)

Do do do do do do do do

Do do do do do do do do

Do do do do do do do do



I'll take those long nights, impossible odds

Keepin' my eye to the keyhole

If it takes all night to be just what I am

I'm gonna be a blue collar

Got to be a blue collar

Gonna be a blue collar man