Middle Class Man - Gary Jeffries

Well I was born in 53

My daddy was a factory man

Nearly all his life giving everything he can

I’d seen the good and I’d seen the bad

Even though I was quite young

I couldn’t get what he’d been through

Till my own family was begun

No one cares if you live or die

What you do when you don’t have

This whole world’s become money ran

A heartless, greedy land

Even though I am quite proud

Of being an American Man

Tell me what the hell went wrong

Middle class man

Blue collared workers

It seem we’ve been forgotten

And cheated from this land

A middle class man

Blue collared workers

It seems we’ve been forgotten

Yeah

Middle class man

Well I opened the ---- to the news today

And started reading our front page

A hundred ninety six men in my hometown

They all laid off before the Christmas Day

It seems the jobs had been given away

To foreign countries

Where the wages are lower than a middle class man

So we all live in poverty

No one cares if you live or die

What you do when you don’t have

This whole world’s become money ran

A heartless, greedy land

Even though I am quite proud

Of being an American Man

Tell me what the hell went wrong

Middle class man

Blue collared workers

It seem we’ve been forgotten

And cheated from this land

Middle class man

Blue collared workers

It seems we’ve been forgotten

Yeah

Middle class man