Intro : G
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Kim said, "Jimmy, you better get yourself up
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Off of that raggedy couch
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I'm too pretty to work, and I'm tired of you
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Uglying up my house"
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Jimmy said, "Baby, the guys at the top
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Are doing bad as the guys on the street"
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Kim said, "The guys at the top ain't about to be
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Paying alimony to me"
Chorus:
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Get downtown
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See what you can find
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Put your face in someone's that ain't mine
Looks like the unemployment blues
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Are wearing out your house shoes
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Baby left when your boots came untied
Solo
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Jimmy said, "Baby, ain't you seen the news?
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It's as far as the eyes can see
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Foreigners are coming in and doing our jobs
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For half of what they would've paid me"
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"You mean half of what you would've made for
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Something you've never done
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Sounds like the bright side to all this, Jimmy
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Is your asking price went up
Chorus:
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Now get downtown
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See what you can find
D G
Put your face in someone's that ain't mine
Looks like the unemployment blues
C
Are wearing out your house shoes
D G
Baby left when your boots came untied
Solo
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Jimmy said, "Baby, if I work for your daddy
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It's worse than being his son"
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Kim didn't like what he said one bit
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And it didn't surprise him none
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She said, "My daddy took good enough care of my mama,
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She hardly had to say a thing"
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Jimmy said, "That's part of what's wrong"
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Kim said, "Don't you say another damn thing
Chorus:
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Just get downtown
C
See what you can find
D G
Put your face in someone's that ain't mine
Looks like the unemployment blues
C
Are wearing out your house shoes
D G
Baby left when your boots came untied