[Intro: Tommy Shaw, Kevin Cronin]
Let's hear it for REO Speedwagon!
Let's hear it for Styx, come on!
Let's hear it for all of us, what do you say!
Tommy, wanna sing one, baby?
Let's do it, what do you say?
We did this already, but we're gonna do like a 10-piece version of it for you, how about that?
The big band version
Hey, woo!

[Verse 1: Tommy Shaw, Kevin Cronin]
Give me a job, give me security (Oh)
Give me a chance to survive
I'm just a poor soul in the unemployment line
My God, I'm hardly alive
My mother and father, my wife, and my friends
You see them laugh in my face
But I've got the power, and I've got the will
I'm not a charity case
Sing it boys!

[Chorus: All, Tommy Shaw]
Long nights, impossible odds
Keeping my eye to the keyhole
If it takes all that to be just what I am
Well, I'm gonna be a blue-collar man
Let me hear it!
Take it, Kevin!
[Verse 2: Kevin Cronin]
Oh, make me an offer that I can't refuse
Make me respectable, man
This is my last time in the unemployment line
My God, I'm buried alive

[Chorus: Kevin Cronin, Tommy Shaw, All]
I'll take the long nights, oh, yeah, impossible odds
Keeping my back to the wall
If it takes all that, all that to be just what I am
Well, I'm gonna be a blue-collar man

[Bridge 1: Tommy Shaw]
Keeping my mind on a better life
Where happiness is only a heartbeat away
Paradise, can it be all I heard it was?
I close my eyes, and maybe I'm already there

[Chorus: Tommy Shaw, All]
I'll take those long nights, take the long nights, impossible odds
I'm gone, now, keeping my back to the wall
If it takes all that, if it takes all that, to be just what I am
Well, I'm gonna be a blue-collar man

[Bridge 2: Tommy Shaw, All]
I'm just a workin' man
(Doot, do-doot, doot, doot, doot, do-do)
I work for a livin', baby
(Doot, do-doot, doot, doot, doot, do-do)
With all that I can
(Doot, do-doot, doot, doot, doot, do-do)
Come on, put it together
(Doot, do-doot, doot, doot, doot, do-do)
[Chorus: Tommy Shaw, All]
I'll take those long nights, impossible odds
Keeping my back to the wall
All that, that's right, to be just what I am
Well, I'm going to be a blue-collar
Gotta be a blue-collar
Gonna be a blue-collar man

[Outro: Tommy Shaw]
All right!
St. Louis!
I'm gonna be a blue-collar man, baby, yeah, now, baby
I'm gonna be a blue, I'm gonna be a blue
I'm gonna be a blue-collar man
REO Speedwagon, yeah, baby