Johnny Paycheck - Don't Bury Me 'Til I'm Ready lyrics

Don't bury me 'till I'm ready Don't try to say I'm gonna be missed Don't wave me goodbye, son, I'll spit in your eye Cause I ain't going out like this Don't wave me goodbye, son, I'll spit in your eye Cause I ain't going out like this I've been 40 years in a factory And I've lived all my life in a little old shack I gave up my youth to the bossman But as far as I know he ain't never give nothing back Now they tell me I'm too old to cut it That I should go and rest a spell They say that I'll be dead any day now But they don't know this old boy too well Chorus You know I never had no easy occupation Hard work's all I ever knew It's a fact that I ain't got a thing now to show boys All the misery that life has put me through But a voice down deep in my guts keeps on screaming John, you been going too long now to stop I've spent all my life on the bottom But by the grace of God I'm going to go out on the top But by the grace of God I'm going to go out on the top