Blue Collar Man (Cover Version)

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
I've seen 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 those long nights, impossible odds
Keeping my eye on the keyhole
If it takes all that to be just what I am
I've gotta be a blue collar man

Make me an offer I can't refuse
Make me respectable, man
Last time living on the unemployment line
So like it or not, I'll take those

Long nights, impossible odds
Keeping my back to the wall
If it takes all that to be what I am
I've gotta be a blue collar man

Keeping 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
Keeping my eye on the keyhole
If it takes all that to be what I am
I've gotta be a blue collar man

Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do
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

I'll take those long nights, impossible odds
Keeping my eye to the keyhole
If it takes all that to be what I am
I've gotta be a blue collar, gotta be a blue collar
Gotta be a blue collar man