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Credits
PERFORMING ARTISTS
Dennis DeYoung
Synthesizer
Tommy Shaw
Electric Guitar
Chuck Panozzo
Bass Guitar
John Panozzo
Drums
James Young
Electric Guitar
Ed Walsh
Synthesizer Programming
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Tommy Shaw
Songwriter
Styx
Arranger
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Styx
Producer
Barry Mraz
Engineer
Robin Kingsland
Engineer
Gary Geppert
Assistant Engineer
Harry Andronis
Assistant Engineer
Ted Jensen
Mastering Engineer
Lyrics
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
You 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 the long night, impossible odds
Keepin' my eye to the keyhole
If it takes all that to be just what I am
Well 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 the
Long nights, impossible odds
Keepin' my back to the wall
If it takes all night to be just what I am
Well, I'm gonna be a blue collar man
Keepin' my mind on a better life
Where 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
I'll take those long nights, impossible odds
Keepin' my eye to the keyhole
All that to be just what I am
Well I'm gonna be a blue collar man
Do do do do do do do do
(You don't understand)
Do do do do do do do do
Do do do do do do do do
Do do do do do do do do
I'll take those long nights, impossible odds
Keepin' my eye to the keyhole
If it takes all night to be just what I am
I'm gonna be a blue collar
Got to be a blue collar
Gonna be a blue collar man
Writer(s): Tommy Shaw
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