Utah Phillips - Sheep and Goats lyrics

Say mate
Have you seen the mills where the kids
At the loom spit blood?
Have you been in the mine
When the fire damp blew?
Shipped as a hand with a freighter's crew
Or worked in a levy flood?
Have you rotted wet in a
Grazing camp or scorched in a desert line?
Have you done your night
Stint with your lamp
Watching the timbers drip with damp
Or hear the oil rig whine?
Have you had your pay held back for tools
You never saw or could use?
Have you gone like a fool
With the other fools
To the bosses saloon where
The strong arm rules
And cashed your time for booze?
I do no kicking at god or fate


I keep my shoes for the road
The long, grey road, and I love it, mate
Hay-foot, straw-foot, that's my gait
And I carry no other man's load
I don't mind working to earn my bread
And I'd just as soon keep straight
But just like the preacher man said
I'm a ram and I've missed the gate
But I'm jogging along, jogging ahead
Perhaps I'll find it, mate