What Work Is

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Yeah, I used to work with a guy named Frankie Acosta We were butter strippers down at the Challenge Creamery Strippin' the cardboard off 70 lbs cubes of butter It was hot back then, summer of 1963 And Franky, man, he'd get so angry He'd say, "See what the women make me do..." Then he'd break off a splinter from a dirty wooden pallet And stick it like a knife in one of them big old butter cubes 1st Chorus: That's what work is That's what love is A little pleasure and a little misery Now every time it gets hard out here I think of L.A. back in 1963. Then I got a job workin' for the City of Inglewood Runnin' the chipper, chippin' limbs off of trees I worked with a guy named Crazy Dave Macklin And one day he almost ran a tractor over me And we were out choppin' weeds near South Central When the riots broke out and the sky turned fiery red and brown And I called up my girlfriend on a payphone and said, "Baby, I love you, but I think God's gonna finally burn Gomorrha down." And she said 2nd Chorus "That's what work is That's what love is You build a house of straw and the flames lick the sky." Now every time I fall in love out here I think of L.A. back in 1965. I finally got a job drivin' a rose truck From Santa Barbara, Midnight, to L.A. 5th and Main All jacked up on coffee, cheap speed and donuts Walkin' around the L.A. flower market in the rain And every time I'd eat breakfast at The Pantry down at Figueroa The waiters were always old-time ex-cons Then we'd load the trucks back up with empty rose boxes And drive on up the coast through the California dawn. 3rd Chorus: That's what work is That's what love is Two eggs over easy on a T-Bone steak And every time I see the sun rise over the ocean I think of L.A. back in 1968. Repeat 1st Chorus I used to work with a guy named Franky Acosta...