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Dirty Overhalls
The Del McCoury Band
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You can wash my pair of dirty overhalls
I'll ride that train you call the cannonball
From Baltimore to the Frisco Bay
I worked six months in a lumber town this fall
All I got left is these dirty overhalls
Ain't got a dime, ain't that a shame?
I worked six weeks a dynamiting coal
All I got left is these dirty overhalls
A dirty shame. Now whose to blame?
Good girl, listen, please don't turn away
I'll have a car and suit o' clothes someday
Instead of dirty old overhalls
Honey girl, sweetheart, I do the best I can
I'm just a poor boy, a hard-working man
My money's gone when I get done
If you leave me, I'll be so sad and blue!
What is there for a working man to do?
These overhalls, these overhalls
I seen a rich man driving in his car
He had a woman for every cylinder
A good warm bed, a bottle of gin
I work like a dog, I'm broke all the time
Couldn't buy a woman a two bit bottle of wine
These overhalls they smell too bad
Rich man took my woman away from me
He'll be sorry, sorry, wait and see
When I get out of these overhalls
The cops ought to put that money man in jail
He stole my money and took away my girl
Now who's a gonna wash, my overhalls?
Who's a gonna wash, my overhalls?