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McGinnis Gets a Job (trad)
Debra Cowan

Last winter was a hard one

Mrs. Riley did you hear?

It’s well you should have known it

It’s been for many a day

Your husband wasn’t the only one

Who sat beside the wall

My old man McGinnis

Couldn’t get a job at all


Chorus:

So rise up, Mrs. Riley

Don’t give away to blues

You and I will cut a shine

In bonnet and new shoes

Hear the young ones cry

Neither sigh nor sob

We’ll wait til times get better

And McGinnis gets a job


The politicians promised them

Work on the boulevard

To work with pick and shovel

Load stone on the cart

Six months ago they promised them

This work we’d surely get

I tell you my good woman

They are promisin’ it yet


Bad luck to them Eyetalians


I wish they’d stayed at home

We’ve plenty of our own kind

To eat up all our own

They come like bees in summertime

Swarmin’ here to stay

And contractors they hire them

For forty cents a day


They work upon the railways

They shovel snow and slush

There’s one thing in their favor

Eyetalians never get lush

They bring their money home at night

Take no dinner wine

That’s one thing I wish I could say

For your old man and mine


Now, springtime is a-comin’

And work we’ll surely get

My man’ll get his job again

He makes a handsome clerk

I’ll see him climb the ladder

As nimble as a fox

Yes he’s the one to handle

That old three cornered box


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