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Artist: Ry Cooder
Canonical path: /ry-cooder/do-you-want-my-job
Related lyric paths: 6
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Do You Want My Job
Read Do You Want My Job lyrics by Ry Cooder on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Do You Want My Job
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Cool breezes from the mountains blow
As I wake up and dress to go
On the island dawn is breaking
In the harbour tanker`s waiting
From the land of the rising sun
They bring their old plutonium
And we unload it in the bay
For two dollars forty cents a day
Chorus:
Do you want my
Do you want my
Do you want my
Do you want my job
I hump the stuff I take the cash
So my kids can wear Adidas
And if you live here home you know
We ain`t got no place else to go
I remember when the air was sweet
And I brought home the fish to eat
Now we buy Spam from the grocery store
Cause you can eat the fish no more
Chorus
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Ry Cooder performs "Do You Want My Job", and this lyric page sits inside the Ry Cooder catalog on LyroVerse.
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