Tonart: D major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Too proud, too bad,
too honest, too steel
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Employers please listen to
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my appeal
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Night and day I'm walking the streets
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Nothing to eat and nowhere to sleep
So kind -hearted employers,
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my case is up to you,
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give me something to do.
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I'm not asking for social equality,
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to rank with the rich in their company,
to drive around New York in their motorcars,
or to go to their penthouses
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and smoke their cigars.
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All I want is a job with a decent wage
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To exist now and provide for all age
So kind hearted employers,
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Gm
my case is up to you
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Give me something to do
From the day when I began to sing
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My mother told me I'll be a king
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She spoke to me confidentially,
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saying the older you get,
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the better you'll be
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And when you sing all the minor psalms,
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it will cause trials and a sensation
So kind -hearted employers,
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my case is up to you,
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give me something to do
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The reason why I'm appealing to you,
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I've got a wife, four children,
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and a mother too
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They reside in the West Indies
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and are depending on me
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financially
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Friends, many days I feel I can die,
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I feel like committing suicide
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So, kind -hearted employers,
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my case is up to you,
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give me something to do.
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I'm not the crooner, Rudy Fally,
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or the songbird, Mr. Bing Crosby.
People, I want you to understand,
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I am not Guy Lombardo to call White Man.
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This is plain Papa Houdini,
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the Calypso King of the West Indy
And every man was born to be free
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and to be happy from suppression
Outro 1
and misery
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TunerE A D G B E
Akkorde & SongtexteF C Bb Gm
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