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Thread #32995   Message #437042
Posted By: GUEST,sara_grl
09-Apr-01 - 11:02 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Great Big Sea
Subject: Lyr Add: CHEMICAL WORKER'S SONG (Great Big Sea)
Here you go...The song is called "The Chemical Worker's Song (Process Man)" and is on the CD titled UP. Here are the lyrics.

THE CHEMICAL WORKER'S SONG (PROCESS MAN)
(Great Big Sea)

(Chorus)
And it's go boys go.
They'll time your every breath.
And every day you're in this place,
You're two days nearer death.
But you go.

Well a process man am I and I'm telling you no lies.
I work and breath among the fumes that tread across the sky.
There's thunder all around me and there's poison in the air.
There's a lousy smell that smacks of hell and dust all in me hair.

(Chorus)

Well I've worked among the spinners and I breathed the oily smoke.
I shoveled up the gypsum and that nigh on makes you choke.
I've knee deep in cyanide got sick with a caustic burn.
Been working rough I've seen enough to make your stomach turn.

(Chorus)

There's overtime and bonus opportunity galore.
The young men like their money and they all come back for more.
But soon you're knockin' on and you look older than you should.
For every bob made on the job is paid with flesh and blood.

(chorus)

Well a process man am I and I'm telling you no lies.
I work and breathe among the fumes that tread across the sky.
There's thunder all around me and there's poison in the air.
There's a lousy smell that smacks of hell and dust all in me hair.

(Chorus X 2)

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