Congratulations Joe

He woke up one day and made his way down to the waterfront as he did all the days in his 44 years as long as the ships made in

He stands for a cause. He stands for a union from older days gone. A dying breed of workers who lived to carry on and die for the age that we're in.

In a cloudy haze as fog drifted in.

That man wore his colors. He chose to begin as a younger man working through his days to carry home the food and to carry home the pay

waiting for the day to end

breaking your back breaking your hands

working to go home again

there's nothing much more satisfying

He woke up one day and made his way down to the waterfront as he did all the days in his 44 years as long as the ships made in

This day was the one. A milestone in a marathon on that Oakland waterfront. A well-earned reward for a hard working one who served and now deserves what's to come.

In a cloudy haze the fog drifted in

That man wore his colors he chose to begin

As an older man who worked through all those days to carry home the food and carry home the pay

waiting for the day to end

breaking your back breaking your hands

working to go home again

there's nothing much more satisfying

We all have a cause worth waging war

Or worth making peace to keep

We all have a love whatever it is

Or whoever is thee to seek

And there comes a day if we're lucky enough

And the cards fall our way

I'll pray to sit with the birds,

And take the boots off.