Blue Collar Man (Long Nights)

Styx

"Blue Collar Man" by Styx

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Give me a job, give me security
Give me a chance to survive
I'm just a poor soul in the unemployment line
My God, I'm hardly alive
My mother and father, my wife and my friends
I see them laugh in my face
But I've got the power, and I've got the will
I'm not a charity case

I'll take those long nights, impossible odds
Keeping my eye to the keyhole
If it takes all that to be just what I am
I'm gonna be a blue collar man

Make me an offer that I can't refuse
Make me respectable, man
This is my last time in the unemployment line
So like it or not I'll take those

Long nights, impossible odds
Keeping my back to the wall
If it takes all that to be just what I am
I'm gonna be a blue collar man

Keeping my mind on a better life
When happiness is only a heartbeat away
Paradise, can it be all I heard it was
I close my eyes and maybe I'm already there


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Chart History

Chart DatePosition
1978-09-1673
1978-09-2359
1978-09-3052
1978-10-0747
1978-10-1443
1978-10-2138
1978-10-2831
1978-11-0425
1978-11-1123
1978-11-1821
1978-11-2521
1978-12-0236
1978-12-0968
1978-12-16100

Peak Position: #21
Number of Weeks on Chart: 14