Tommy Roe – Working Class Hero lyrics

These lyrics are for the John Lennon song of the same title. The Tommy Roe song; "Well, he works hard on the highway, underneath the burnin sun, and his hands are hard and calloused from the work that he has done. He pulls a dragline "cross the country" on a flatbed trailer truck. He picks cotton down in Texas in the fields where he grew up. He doesn't have much education, but he takes that in stride, and he won't ask no-one for nothing, 'cause he's a man with a lot of pride. He's a working class hero, he's a man, he's America. He's a working class hero. He's a man, he's America.
You can see him on the scaffold, hanging 20 stories high. He is the builder of the building that's growing in the sky. And his spirit's on the highway, where the sweat from his brow is shed, and in the coal mines in Virginia where he works until he's dead. He doesn't have much education, but he takes that in stride, and he won't ask no one for nothing, 'cause he's a man with a lot of pride. He's a working class hero, he's a man, he's America. He's a working class hero, he's a man, he's America.
You can see him in the stock yards, in Chicago and St. Lou. And on the dock in San Francisco, and down in Houston too. He is a man most like a mountain, 'cause his shoulders are so strong. He demands respect and gets it. He won't let you do him wrong. He doesn't have much education, but he takes that in stride. He's a working class hero, he's a man, he's America. He's a working class hero. He's a man, he's America.