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Too Good for the Working Man

Restaurants where the waiters get a tip
Are only for a certain clan
Drinking gin at one and nine a nip
Is too good for the working man.

Fancy food is for the fancy taste
That's our economic plan
Gaining too much weight below the waist
Is too good for the working man.

Tony restaurants suit the upper classes
Drink their beer in easy stages
Getting tight out of five ounce glasses
Can't be done on a worker's wages.

Finer things are for the finer folk
So society began
Caviar for peasants is a joke
It's too good for the working man.

Socially I'm lower than a louse
Just another also ran
To be introduced at Gov'ment House
Is too good for the working man.

Brokers' clothes are prosperous and sleek
Wharfies manage what they can
Ten bob down and two and six a week
Is O.K. for the working man.

Farmers' sons go to schools that are arty
—Wedding in the College Chapel
Plumbers' mates marry girls who are tarty
But guess which ones find a worm in the apple.

Chaps like me can't leave the wife and go
We'd soon end up in the can
Lawyers' fees at a hundred quid a throw
Are too good for the working man.