Henry's Songbook

Chorus:
We don't work for a living
We get along all right without
We don't toil all day
Maybe because we're not built that way
Some people work for love
And say it's all sunshine and gain
But if we don't get sunshine without doing work
We'd rather stay out in the rain

Give me a nail and a hammer, a picture to hang on the wall
Give me a good strong step-ladder - you know, I might fall
Give me a couple of waiters and a barrel of good old ale
And I bet you we'll hang up that picture if someone else hammers the nail

I suppose you all think it's quite easy standing here singing these songs
Last night we only got twelve hours sleep, for us that's not very long
I'll give my banjo to somebody here, and someone can play my guitar
There's not many words, there's only three chords -
And we can go drink at the bar

(as sung by Iain MacKintosh & Hamish Imlach)

[1989:] Rewritten from an old '78 recording. (Iain MacKintosh, pr. comm.)

[1991:] A song that Iain learnt from his mother. His mother only knew one verse, so he wrote another. (Intro Hamish Imlach)

See also http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=16105