Tune: What a Friend We Have in Jesus/Take It To The Lord in Prayer, ca 1865; new union lyrics by John Brill, ca 1919; performed by Utah Phillips - From the album, We Have Fed You All a Thousand Years, 1983
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Lyrics:
Are you poor, forlorn, and hungry?
Are there lots of things you lack?
Is your life made up of misery?
Then, dump the bosses off your back.
Are your clothes all patched and tattered?
Are you living in a shack?
Would you have your troubles scattered?
Then, dump the bosses of f your back.
Are you almost split asunder,
Loaded like a long-eared jack?
Boob, why don’t you buck like thunder
And dump the bosses off your back?
All the agonies you suffer,
You can end with one good whack.
Stiffen up, you orn’ry duffer,
And dump the bosses off your back.