Everybody's working for the man again,
everybody's working for the man.
Everybody's working for the man again,
everybody's working for the man.
 
[Verse 1]
We had a hardware store down on Main Street,
it had a drug store and a grocery too.
Then the megamarket opened on the edge of town
there was nothing anybody could do.
 
[Chorus 1]
Everybody's working for the man again,
everybody's working for the man.
Mom and Pop had to close up shop,
everybody's working for the man.
 
[Verse 2]
We had a radio station that played our music
the way we all liked it round here.
Then a big corporation with a whole lot of money
told our jockeys what they wanted to hear.
 
[Chorus 2]
Everybody's working for the man again,
everybody's working for the man.
They got everybody dancing to the same Top Ten,
everybody's working for the man.
 
[Verse 3]
The fox is in the henhouse, cows are in the corn,
rooster's too scared to crow;
the fat cats are up in the farmhouse now,
doin' the do-si-do.
 
[Verse 4]
The broadcasters bought off the FCC,
big oil's got the EPA;
Halliburton, Halliburton, Halliburton, Halliburton,
what else do you have to say?
 
[Chorus 3]
Everybody's working for the man again,
everybody's working for the man.
Everybody's working for the man again,
everybody's working for the man.
 
 
[Verse 5]
Little fish are eaten by the big fish,
swallowed up head and tail;
then the big fish are eaten by the bigger fish
'till we're all in the belly of the whale.
 
[Chorus 4]
Everybody's working for the man again,
everybody's working for the man.
Everybody's working for the man again,
everybody's working for the man.
 
[End-Chorus]
Everybody's working for the man again,
everybody's working for the man.
Everybody's working for the man again,
everybody's working for the man.
Everybody's working for the man.
everybody's working for the man.