"Sixty Percent" lyrics - PETE SEEGER
PETE SEEGER
"Sixty Percent"
I'm sixty percent an American
I'm sixty percent a man
That's what parity say I am
That's the law of the land
Now do I work sixty percent of each day?
Eat sixty percent of my meals?
And does my truck take me into town
On sixty percent of its wheels?
Now will my chicks be content to eat
Just sixty percent of their mash?
And will the middleman give my throat
Just sixty percent of a slash?
Now all you workers in city and town
I know your budget's a mess
But when you get to that last lousy buck
Remember I've forty cents less!
American Industrial Ballads (1956)
- Peg And Awl
- The Blind Fiddler
- The Buffalo Skinners
- Eight-Hour Day
- Hard Times In The Mill
- Roll Down The Line
- Hayseed Like Me
- The Farmer Is The Man (Who Feeds Us All)
- Come All You Hardy Miners
- He Lies In The American Land
- Casey Jones
- Let Them Wear Their Watches Fine
- Cotton Mill Colic
- Seven Cent Cotton And Forty Cent Meat
- Mill Mother's Lament
- Fare Ye Well, Old Ely Branch
- Beans, Bacon, And Gravy
- The Death Of Harry Simms
- Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues
- Ballad Of Barney Graham
- My Children Are Seven In Number
- Raggedy
- Pittsburgh Town
- Sixty Percent