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(This song is played in a country blues style reminiscent of John Hurt. It was actually written a good year before stories about Enron hit the news!)

Profit Line
©2002 Barbara T. Webber

Got my raise in pay just the other day
The price of gas rose twice as fast
And they told me I should be feeling good.
There's hiring freezes till efficiency increases
And I'm breaking my back just to pick up the slack
And I told them I was working as hard as I could.
And I get the feeling that no one is listening
They're counting their money with eyes a-glistening
There's not much I can say that would do any good.

Chorus:
Board the train or get out of the way
It doesn't really matter anyway
We're on Wall Street time
And this engine's moving down the profit line.

My middle-aged boss got the pen and the toss
The department head's now from Europe instead
And they told me I should be feeling good.
The bonuses are cut and the benefits suck
The hours are longer, make that coffee stronger.
And I told them, I was working as hard as I could.
And I see the owner just once a year
On a video conference from a yacht somewhere
I'm just a number that impacts the bottom line.

Chorus.

A new guru came with a famous name
And by Power Point(R) he revised the joint
And they called him "Messiah of the Business Land."
But there's many others like me here
Trading our tongues for jobs I fear
And we told them nothing cause they wouldn?t understand.
If it's all about money they sell some souls
You may be working on computers or digging for coal
Does money buy a ticket to your promised land?

Final Chorus:
Board the train or get out of the way
It doesn't really matter anyway
We're on Wall Street time
And this engine's moving down
this engine's moving down
this engine's moving down the profit line.

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"Texas Tom"

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"Texas Tom"