A5                       C#5       F#5               
All they said, don't disturb your head 
D5         E5       A5 
About the work we do 
A5                        C#5        F#5 
Just stay in school, someday you'll do 
D5       E5        A5 
What we couldn't do 
    A5                  C5      D5 
But run boy run in the summer sun 
     G5 
On a summer day 
    A5                          C5             D5 
You know what you know and you can't wait to grow 
   G5          E5  
Be on your way 
             A5                  C#5          F#5 
I could only understand that my dad's a good man 
         D5    E5  A5 
And he's glad payday 

 
    A5                 C#5        F#5     
Now high school plan, be a motor city man 
D5       E5        A5 
Working night or day 
   A5                          C#5    F#5 
No matter who you are, you've got to have a car  
D5      E5 A5 
In the USA 
A5                              C5          D5 
Something aint right about the billboards filing  
         G5 
Down the big highway 
    A5                     C5            D5 
Now hard times again, and good working men 
            G5           E5 
Are sittin? home all day 
            A5                            C#5          F#5 
I know this plant's closing down and I'm leaving this town 
        D5    E5  A5 
I'll be gone payday 
 

         A5                                C5          D5 
Yeah the red lights and green lights that lighted my home 
          G5  
Are gonna light my way 
    A5                       C5            D5 
Goodbye to the park and the corner after dark 
        G5             E5  
Where I lost my faith 
                  A5                    C#5    F#5 
Let the factories all fall down to the mother ground 
        D5    E5  A5  
I'll be gone payday 
 
 
Yeah, I've done all I can I'm a Motor city man 
And I'm on my way 
Said I'm on my way 
I said I'm on my way