What Work Is
What Work Is

What Work Is easy guitar chords by Tom Russell

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    • Verse 1
    Music 


    I 
    used 
    to work 
    with a 
    guy named 

    Frankie 

    Acost
    a 

    We 
    were 
    butter 
    strippers 

    down 
    at the 

    Challenge 

    Cream
    ery 

    Stripping 
    the cardboard 
    off 
    70 

    -pound cubes 
    of butter 

    Yeah, 
    it 
    was 
    hot 
    back then, 

    summer 
    of 
    1963 

    And 

    Frankie 

    Manny 
    gets 
    so 
    angry, 
    he'd 
    say 

    See 
    what 
    the 
    women 
    make 
    me do 

    And 
    then 
    he'd break 
    off a 
    splinter 

    from 
    a dirty 
    wooden 
    pallet 

    And 
    stick it 
    like a 
    knife 
    in 
    one of them 

    big 
    ol' butter 
    cube
    s 

    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 
    working 

    for the 
    city of 

    Englewood 

    Runnin' 
    the chipper
    , 

    chippin' 
    limbs 
    off of 
    trees. 

    I 
    worked with 
    a guy 
    named 

    Crazy 

    Dave 

    Mack
    lin, 
    an
    d 
    one 
    day he 
    almost 

    ran a 
    tractor 
    over 
    me. 

    We 
    were 
    out 
    chopping 
    weeds 
    near 

    South 

    Central 

    When 
    the riots 
    broke 
    out 
    and 
    the sky 

    turned fiery 
    red 
    and brown 

    I 
    called 
    up my 
    girlfriend 
    on 

    a pay 
    phone 
    and said, 

    Baby, 
    I love 
    you, 
    but I 
    think 

    God's 
    gonna finally 
    burn 

    Gamora 
    down 

    She 
    said, 

    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 

    Interlude 1



    Verse 2

    I 
    finally 
    got a 
    job 
    driving 
    a road 
    truck, 

    Santa 

    Barbara 
    midnight 
    to 

    L 
    .A. 
    5th 
    of 

    May, 

    all 
    jacked 
    up on 
    coffee, 
    cheap speed 
    and 
    donuts, 

    walk
    ing 
    around the 

    L .A. 
    flower 
    market 
    in 
    the 

    rain. 

    And 
    every morning 
    I'd 
    eat breakfast 

    at 
    the pantry 
    down 
    on 

    Figueroa 

    The 
    waiters 
    were 
    always 

    old 
    -time 
    ex 
    -con
    s 

    Then 
    we'd 
    load the 
    truck 

    back 
    up with 
    empty 

    rose 
    boxes 

    And 
    drive 
    on up 
    the coast 

    through 
    the 

    California 

    dawn 

    That's 
    what 
    work 
    is, 
    that's 
    what love 
    is 

    Two 
    eggs 
    over 
    easy, 
    on 
    a 

    T 
    -bone 
    spoon 

    Every 
    time 
    I 
    see 
    the sun 

    rise 
    on 
    the ocean 
    I 
    think 
    of 

    L 
    .A. back 
    in 1968 

    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. 

    I 
    used to 
    work with 
    a guy 
    named 

    Frankie 

    Acosta. 

    you 

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