Image and caption: Montgomery County, Maryland. Farmers sharing a car on market day. Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information photograph collection (Library of Congress) LC-USW3- 010300-E

Lyrics:
Working folks have worries some don't understand--
 Take an Oklahoma farmer on deeply mortgaged land
 He did his damnedest dawn to dusk, each and every day
 Till it seems like God woke up on the wrong side, sir
 And trouble blew his farm away

 Working folks have worriers others just don't see--
 Take a father of four on the swing shift in a Michigan factory
 He brought the floor his all and more, they called him "Johnny the Overtime Hound"
 Till there was some big money mess back in New York City
 And it shut that factory down

 Working folks have worries, some folks just don't care--
 'Cause they look at the little guy in back of the eight ball
 And they can't imagine themselves there
 But when you're a man of modest means with feet of common clay
 You need to keep one hairy eyeball
 On things where you've got no say
 Yeah you can go for broke and burn both ends trying to get ahead
 Till a punch to the gut straight out of left field knocks you two steps back instead
 See working folks are quick to help those struggling to get by
 'Cause working folks are crystal clear on "there but for go I"

 So may you never wind up on the wrong side
 Of the worries working people share--
 But for our brothers and sisters suffering through hard times
 I hope you'll find a little love to spare