Utah Phillips - Hallelujah I'm a Bum video free download
HALLELUJAH, I'M A BUM!
Tune: Revive Us Again
Written by: Harry "Haywire Mac" McClintock
Adapted by Spokane IWW Winter of 1908 For Use on Song Card of That Year)
LYRICS (as written by Haywire Mac, not the ones performed here by Utah):
O, why don't you work Like other men do?
How in hell can I work
When there's no work to do?
(Chorus)
Hallelujah, I'm a bum!
Hallelujah, bum again!
Hallelujah, give us a handout
To revive us again.
O, why don't you save
All the money you earn?
If I did not eat
I'd have money to burn.
(Chorus)
O, I like my boss -
He's a good friend of mine;
That's why I'm starving
Out in the breadline.
(Chorus)
I can't buy a job
For I ain't got the dough,
So I ride in a box-car
For I'm a hobo.
(Chorus)
Whenever I get
All the money I earn
The boss will be broke
And to work he must turn.
(Chorus)
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Comments
9 years ago
pocjetty
Glory, Glory, I'm a Loser. The Battle Hymn of the Repugnant.It takes a lot of nerve to beg, and then bitch that people are nice enough about how they give you things. But it takes a special sort of loser to actually celebrate being a loser. Celebrate with him... losers.9 years ago
John Jankowski
A hand up....10 years ago
His Royal Highness of Sweden
This is great! Cheers from Sweden!10 years ago
Billy Kurgan
I like that kind of hat that he wears, what are those called? If I ever need a hat I might get one of those.10 years ago
William Murray
mmm, you find 1 nutbag christian drug induced beheading and compare it to the thousands done by muslims. vagabond was right , ever since amerika put the homo,marxist, muslim in the white house the usa has been in decline . you notice that all the countries named have a common denometer , no niggers in charge ! remember in ww 2 how america's economy saved the world from hitler ?10 years ago
Denise Roegner
Thanks for sharing this song10 years ago
William Murray
dylan, like i'd believe a socialist. name one country with socialism that has a higher standard of living than capitalist america . another beheading in okla. by the lying muslim obama's " religion of peace". wake up you blind fool !10 years ago
William Murray
NO JUSTIN, IT;S NOT O.K. ! I'M AN AMERICAN AND BELIEVE IN THE CONSTITUTION AND THE 1ST AMENDMENT (FREE SPEECH ) IT APPEARS YOUR A RUMPSWAB OF OBAMA AND SUPPORT WHAT HE'S DOING TO THIS COUNTRY . I'LL ALWAYS SPEAK OUT AGAINST THIS MARXIST WHO'S SCANDALS ARE DESTROYING THE U.S.A. BENGHAZI, FAST AND FURIOUS, IRS, NSA, V.A., RELEASING THE COMMAND STAFF OF THE TALIBAN FOR A DESERTER ,AND YOUR ON BOARD WITH THE MUSLIM PRES. NOW WATCH THE COMMENTS AND SEE HOW MUCH SUPPORT IS ON MY SIDE . GOD BLESS AMERICA !10 years ago
Bluetoe2
Met the "Golden Voice of the Southwest" at an IWW convention in Chicago many years ago. He arrived in Chicago by hopping on a freight train. Not only did he talk the talk he walked the walk. Merican workers today are totally clueless. Hallelujah, I'm a bum!!!10 years ago
William Murray
SONG INSPIRED BY BARACK'S ECONOMY !10 years ago
Buzz Malone
For +Timothy Hurley...11 years ago
Ayn Marx
I'm pretty sure that his F.B.I. story were a joke, as I find it easy to believe that if the F.B.I. expends the effort of ploughing-up a field looking for guns, they will find guns there whether they had been buried there or not.11 years ago
mturynP
I don't believe his F.B.I. story because I'm convinced that if the F.B.I. plough-up a field looking for guns, they will find guns whether they were buried there or not.11 years ago
Bob Stepno
Can we nominate this as the AARP theme song, maybe with a few new verses and minus the insurance company junk mail?11 years ago
SVENGHOULY
i Found the lyrixs in a old old book of my parents * LOVE IT !!!!!11 years ago
mary jo dodd
looking for something else by him and almost forgot this ..it is so still very relevant just up date mail to email and we can all get our plowing done for us .. put those guys to honest work ...11 years ago
timetogiveyoueyes
long live thee VAGABOND !11 years ago
Rosskay
Hallelujah I'm a bum ;)11 years ago
AnneMeansGrace
I used to drive past the Kaiser Aluminum plant he's talking about all the time. The union got greedy and now instead of better benefits the plant is closed. It happened a long time ago, this song must have been recorded a while back.12 years ago
yossariancomplex
He's so human, it's wonderfull. Hallelujah!Related Videos
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