Five Long Years

If you ever been mistreated
Then you know
Just what I'm talking about

If you ever been
Mistreated people
You know just
What I'm talking about

I tell you I worked:
"I worked five long years
For a woman
And she had the nerve
To put me out"

You know I got a job
In a steel mill
Trucking steel like a slave
Five long years:
"Every Friday I went
Straight home
With all of my pay"

If you ever been
Mistreated people
Then you know
Just what I'm talking about

I tell you: "I worked
I worked five long years
For a woman,
And she had the nerve
To put me out"

But you know
I finally learned a lesson
A long, long time ago
The next woman
That I marry:
"She gotta work
And bring in the dough"

If you been
Mistreated people
Then you know
Just what I'm talking about

I tell you: "I worked
I worked five long years
For a woman
She had the nerve
She had the nerve
To put me out"