Digital Tradition Mirror

Dump the Bosses Off Your Back

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Pennywhistle notation and Dulcimer tab for this song is also available

Dump the Bosses Off Your Back
(John Brill)

 Are you poor, forlorn and hungry?
     Are there lots of things you lack ?
   Is your life made up of misery?
     Then dump the bosses off your back.
   Are your clothes all patched and tattered ?
     Are you living in a shack ?
   Would you have your troubles scattered ?
     Then dump the bosses off your back.

 Are you almost split asunder?
     Loaded like a long-eared jack ?
   Boob - why don't you buck like thunder,
     And dump the bosses off your back ?
   All the agonies you suffer
     You can end with one good whack
   Stiffen up, you orn'ry duffer
     And dump the bosses off your back.

   (IWW Songbook 9th Edition, 1916)
See also FRND* (several parodies --- great tune)
RG

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