Lyr ADD: I'm Looking for a Job (Matt McGinn)

Subject: Lookin for a job
From:
Date: 02 Mar 97 - 04:50 PM

has anyone got the words for the following song, word something like chorus:-

I'm looking for a job with a sky high pay, three day week and a two hour day

Maybe it's because I'm inclined that way, but I never did like being idle.

Any help would be handy, (failing the words, anybody know if there's a job going with the above specs?)

cheers Pete [e-mail]

Subject: Lyr Add: I'M LOOKING FOR A JOB (Matt McGinn)
From: Anne Cormack
Date: 03 Mar 97 - 07:15 AM

Pete,
Sorry, I don't know of a job like Matt McGinn's, but I do
have the words for the song!!

I'M LOOKING FOR A JOB
(Matt McGinn)

Chorus:
I'm looking for a job with a sky-high pay
A four day week and a two hour day
S'maybe it's because I'm inclined that way
But I never did like being idle!

V1
I don't want glory and I don't want fame
I left school with a modest aim
I went to the Labour Exchange for work
Here is what I sang to the wee broo clerk

V2
Now that, says he, is a rare wee song
To come frae a lad so big and strong
Through the door on the left and take this card
You can sing to the gaffer down in Harland's yard

V3
I sang it to the gaffer but he thought me daft
I've never even heard such a horse's laugh
He gathered around him all his men
And as one big choir, they sang then

V4
Their voices rang o'er the riverside
And it became the song of the Clyde
Its words were heard the whole world round
And it was known as the Clydeside Sound



This came from the book "McGinn of the Calton"

Enjoy!

Anne

Subject: RE: Lookin for a job
From: Alison
Date: 03 Mar 97 - 05:39 PM

Is there a tune?

Subject: RE: Lookin for a job
From:
Date: 04 Mar 97 - 03:39 PM

Thanks for the words - I'll keep looking for the job

Yes there is a tune! but I can't hum it over the net!!!!!

cheers

Pete

Subject: RE: Lookin for a job
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 04 Mar 97 - 05:51 PM

If anyone wants to share a tune, you COULD put it on an audio cassette and send it to: The Digital Tradition 28 Powell St. Greenwich, CT 06831

or send it as MIDI, SongWright, GIF, QBasic, Xerox of music, all contributions gratefully accepted.

Subject: RE: Lookin for a job
From: GUEST,Senga
Date: 09 Jul 03 - 06:11 PM

This is available on the Best of Matt McGinn , released by Castle Records.

Subject: RE: Lookin for a job
From:
Date: 10 Mar 04 - 02:42 PM

Now did anyone work out the tune for this lovely song? Since I'm out of work, it would be worth singing on my part!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lookin for a job
From: Alex.S
Date: 11 Mar 04 - 12:27 AM

I came into this post wondering what kind of a job you were looking for, and who would be willing to hire right off the internet...

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lookin for a job (Matt McGinn)
From: GUEST,PAT
Date: 11 Mar 04 - 03:18 PM

the music is written out on www.mattmcginn.info
click on songs and poems
then click on I'm looking for a job

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I'm Looking for a Job (Matt McGinn)
From: GUEST
Date: 04 Sep 19 - 12:54 PM

I've heard another verse about the plonkers in Westminter- anyone know it?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I'm Looking for a Job (Matt McGinn)
From: GUEST,Starship
Date: 04 Sep 19 - 01:55 PM

Here it is on YouTube by Matt McGinn.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgJDlnA2zuY

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I'm Looking for a Job (Matt McGinn)
From: GUEST
Date: 05 Sep 19 - 04:54 AM

but not the Westminster verse

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I'm Looking for a Job (Matt McGinn)
From: GUEST,Starship
Date: 05 Sep 19 - 09:17 AM

GUEST 05 Sep 19 - 04:54 AM   Have a listen to the stanza that starts at 2:10 in the following rendition of the song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jnY-IxzXCQ

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I'm Looking for a Job (Matt McGinn)
From: GUEST,jim bainbridge
Date: 06 Oct 21 - 05:13 AM

re the 'Westminster' verse, I added this verse to the original verses about 20 years ago, while running song sessions in Glentrool, Scotland. I thought it needed another verse & I'm sure Matt would have approved.

I put it on a CD 'Lights on the River' in 2004- the singer on youtube has it right although I've inflated the 50 grand up to 90 grand in the ensuing years!
I have heard a verse with a similar verse about Holyrood but don't know where that came from....

'I've travelled all around this land
I've found a job that pays 90 grand
I do no work and I pay no rent
See me, I'm a member of Parliament'