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You may not know me now |
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But i have been around |
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You'll never see my name on any pages |
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I'm just the common man |
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The fool who understands |
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The pain you go through |
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When life takes you under |
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So, sing for the common man |
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A song for the common man |
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He paid for the song with the sweat of his brow |
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He will survive, he will survive |
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You may not know my mother |
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My sisters or my brothers |
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Yet everyone has given for the other |
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You know the working man |
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He builds what others plan |
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So, everyone of us should sing his story |
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So, sing for the common man |
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A song for the common man |
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He paid for the song with the sweat of his brow |
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He will survive, he will survive |
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Dat after day |
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He keeps working away |
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In offices, factories, and farms |
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Year after year |
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He sheds tear after tear |
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He will provide, he will survive |
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So, sing for the common man |
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A song for the common man |
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He paid for the song with the sweat of his brow |
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He will survive, he will survive |