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Thread #2604   Message #1591701
Posted By: Jim Dixon
27-Oct-05 - 09:22 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Walmart Fever
Subject: Lyr Add: WORKIN' AT THE WOOLCO (MANAGER TRAINEE...
Maybe not the song requested, but here's the song Tim Jaques mentioned:

Lyrics from http://www.coolname.com/pipermail/cdnfolk-mirror/2001-June.txt :
Additional info from http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~jrice/Discography_CD.htm :

WORKIN' AT THE WOOLCO (MANAGER TRAINEE BLUES)
(Harley/Dillon/Dubinsky)

Workin' at the Woolco, manager trainee
Dollar forty-four day, houseware aisle three.
I was takin' out the garbage when they opened up the door
A stampede of crazy shoppers knocked me to the floor.

CHORUS: Last week I was in hardware, this week I'm in shoes.
I got the working at the Woolco, manager trainee blues.

Taking out the garbage and sweepin' up the floor,
Learn how to sell, what an awful bore!
They promise a promotion but I think it's a joke.
Can't wait for my lunch break to sneak out for a toke (smoke). CHORUS

Eatin' at the Red Grill nearly every single day.
The spoons are made of plastic. The soup is kinda grey.
You get up to have coffee, someone steals your seat.
French fries and gravy are the only thing to eat. CHORUS

Listening to Muzak hour after hour,
Surrounded day and night by phony flowers.
Florescent lighting is eating out my brain.
"Attention, Woolco shoppers" is driving me insane. CHORUS

[Recorded by Buddy & The Boys on "Buddy," Shagrock LP SAR-2019, 1977; reissued as a CD 1999.]