[Verse 1] I hate unemployment and I’ll tell you why I want to keep working til the day I die I like to work I do it well and when I can’t feed my fam’ly Lord I feel like hell. [Chorus] Lord give me a job of work to do. Lord give me a job of work to do. That’s all I want that’s all I ask of You. [Verse 2] The government man he says its fine To go on down to the free food line. Nice of the government to be so fair But I don’t want my friends to see me there. [Chorus] Lord give me a job of work to do. Lord give me a job of work to do. That’s all I want that’s all I ask of You. [Verse 3] I was born and raised in these old hills I never left ’em and I never will. I’m able-bodied and my friends are too And all we ask is a job to do. [Chorus] Lord give me a job of work to do. Lord give me a job of work to do. That’s all I want that’s all I ask of You. [Verse 4] Yes these are the worst times I have seen Don’t want to seem ungrateful or mean But a mans got to raise his family And I can’t stand to raise ’em on charity. [Chorus] Lord give me a job of work to do. Lord give me a job of work to do. That’s all I want that’s all I ask of You.