Facing the world ain’t easy when there isn’t anything goingStanding at the corner waiting watching time go byWill I go to work today or shall I bide my time’cos when I see that union man walking down the streetHe’s the man who decides if I live or I die, if I starve, or I eatThen he walks up to me and the sun begins to shineThen he walks right past and I know that I’ve got to get back in the lineNow I think of what my mamma told meShe always said that it would never ever work outBut all I want to do is make some moneyAnd bring you home some wineFor I don’t ever want you to see meStanding in that line’cause that union man’s got such a hold over meHe’s the man who decides if I live or I die, if I starve, or I eatThen he walks up to me and the sun begins to shineThen he walks right past and I know that I’ve got to get back in the line