Warren Haynes - Company Man lyrics

I started working here when I was twenty-one Summer of '56 My life had just begun Back then this place was some place to be Thought I could grow with the company Never took a dime Never raised a fuss Right is right Even for those of us Who make a dollar while the man makes ten They say hard work pays off in the end Everything I got I got with my own hands Never wanted to be no company man So I kept my eyes open and my mouth shut Saw my workload increase and my pay cut But I bought a house Started a family Still had some faith in the company Hard time's hit '67 late Devil must've opened up the flood gates My wife, she left me for some other guy And in my heart I guess I always knew why She was never gonna understand Never wanted to be no company man '79 brought a dose of reality We'd all heard the rumours about the company One day they shut us down Throughout the south And keeping my job meant moving out So I got hired on at the local factory Couldn't see uprooting my whole family Never thought I'd be starting over at this stage Taking sh** from some punk Half my age No retirement No hospital plan Never wanted to be no company man Long since retired, now, from the factory Hardly ever think about the company Kinda lonesome, now the kids are grown Moved away Families of their own Got me a little house and a piece of land Never wanted to be no company man Sometimes in this world you gotta make a stand Never wanted to be no company man