Hiya folks. 
Ya say ya lost your job today? 
Ya say its 4 A.M. and your kids ain't home from school 
yet? 
Ya say your wife went out for a corned 
beef sandwich last weekend - the corned beef sandwich 
came back but she didn't? 
Ya say your furniture is out all over the sidewalk 
'cause ya can't pay the rent and ya got chapped lips 
and paper cuts and your feets all 
swollen up and blistered from pounding the pavement 
looking for work? 
Is that whats troubling ya, fellow? 
REFRAIN 
Well, lift your head up high and take a walk in the sun 
with dignity and stick-to-it-ness and ya show the 
world, ya show the world where to get off. 
You'll never give up, never give up, never give 
up...that ship! 
Hey there, friend. 
Ya say your radiators never worked all winter and now 
that its summer they started up again and ya can't turn 
them off? 
Ya say your wife sent your light weight suits to the 
cleaners and that means you'll have to wear your itchy 
tweeds this morning when they say it'll hit 106 and ya 
gotta meet an important business man in an hour and 
your bridge just broke and ya pasted it together with 
bubble gum and ya hope it don't 
fall apart while you're doing some fast talking to this 
man? 
And - and your shoelace just busted and ya opened a big 
cut on your cheek trying to 
even out your sideburns and your daughter's going out 
with a convict and your wife just confessed she gave 
your last sixty dollars as a deposit on an airplane 
hanger? 
Is that whats troubling ya, friend? 
REFRAIN 
Hey there, cousin. Ya say ya can't pull your car out of 
the mud and you're in the middle of nowhere and its 
pouring rain and ya can't get the top back up and your 
paycheck's all blurred and your foot went right through 
the gas and your girl's screaming bloody murder; shes 
scared of the dark and a stroke of lightning splits 
your motor in half and your suits shrinking up fast and 
ya start up the windy road on foot and sixty yards 
barbed wire hits ya right smack in the puss and ya both 
fall down in the mud and then a wild animal comes over 
and runs away with your shoes and your car blows up 
suddenly and your windshield-wiper ends up in your 
mouth and ya can't move and the mud's rising up to your 
nostrils and you're sinking fast and ya don't hear your 
girl screaming anymore? 
Is that what's on your mind, cousin? 
REFRAIN 
And now, this is the old philosopher saying, so long, 
folks.