When Will We B Paid?

[Intro]

When will we be paid

For the work we've done?

When will we be paid

For the work we've done?

[Verse 1]

We fought in your wars in every land

To keep this country free, y'all

For women, children and men

But every time

We ask for pay or a loan

That's when everything seems to turn out wrong

We been beat up

Called names

Shot down and stoned

Every time we do right

Somebody say we're wrong

[Chorus]

Tell me

When will we be paid

For the work we've done

When will we be paid

For the work we've done

[Verse 2]

Listen

We worked this country

From shore to shore

Our women cooked all your food

And washed all your clothes

We picked cotton

And laid the railroad steel

Worked our hands

Down to the bone at your lumber mill

[Chorus]

Tell me

When will we be paid

For the work we've done?

When will we be paid

For the work we've done?

[Bridge]

Will we ever be proud of

"My country, tis of thee"?

Will we ever sing out loud

"Sweet land of Liberty"?

When will we be paid

For the work we've done?

I wanna know

I wanna

I wanna

I wanna know

(When, when, when, when)

[Chorus]

When will we be paid

For the work we've done?

When will we be paid

For the work we've done?

Why can't we be paid?

Oh, oh

When

When will we be paid?

We've given up our sweat

Now

[Outro]

And all of our tears

Stumbled through this life

For more than three hundred years

I

I wanna know

The work we've done