Workin'

Album: Edge of Forever (1999)
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  • Seven years of hard luck, comin' down on me
    From the Florida border, yeah up to Nashville, Tennessee
    I worked in every joint you can name, mister every honky tonk
    Along come Mr. Yankee Slicker, sayin' maybe you're what I want

    [Chorus]
    Want you to sign your contract
    Want you to sign today
    Gonna give you lots of money
    Workin' For MCA

    Nine thousand dollars, that's all we could win
    But we smiled at the Yankee Slicker with a big ol' Southern grin
    They're gonna take me out to California,
    Gonna make me a superstar
    Just pay me all of my money
    And mister maybe you won't get a scar

    [Chorus]

    Suckers took my money since I was seventeen
    If it ain't no pencil pusher, it got to be a honky tonk queen
    But I'll sign my contract baby, and I want you people to know
    That every penny that I make, I'm gonna see where my money goes

    [Chorus] Writer/s: GARY ROSSINGTON, HUGHIE THOMASSON, JOHNNY ROY VAN ZANT, RICKEY LYNN MEDLOCKE
    Publisher: CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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