Steve Goodman - Unemployed lyrics

When I got up this morning I walked down to the plant I wanted to go to work but they said you can't And when I asked the boss why I got canned He said somethin' 'bout the laws of supply and demand Well that's the kind of thing That gets a man annoyed When the wolf is knocking And you're unemployed And I filled out those forms they had in personnel There's twenty men applying for every job to fill Some boys in line are just bums like me And some of them got sheepskins and PhD's It's a sorry situation that you can't avoid When you're over educated and unemployed I don't want to be told how long I have to wait And I don't want to be no number in no jobless rate Don't want no welfare from no welfare state I just want to put the groceries on my baby's plate When I die then I'll get my just reward When the devil makes me chairman of the board Whenever they had hard times in this land before Then they said the way you stop it is to start a war Well I don't want to hear none of that from no politicians no more Or next election day they'll be unemployed