Take a Job

When I see a punk like Wheeler

There's just one thing I see

If he

Why not me?

Take a job, for heaven's sake

With my papa in his business

Please, Hubie

In his super cleaning-pressing business

You could make your way

Be the boss someday

Listen, Hubie

All a woman wants is that

Her man should have a job

A job?!

Please, turn off the Victrola

Stores in Brooklyn and in Queens

It's a very healthy business

Please, Hubie

Opportunity's been knocking

But it's ten years by the clock

How long can it knock?

Listen, Hubie

All a woman wants is that

Her man is not a slob

A slob?!

Please turn off the Victrola

A woman should egg her man on

To bigger things

Better things

You wouldn't like me caged

Punching time every day

I'd lose my personality

And my dash

I should be a piggie with a load of cash

'Cause I'm a dreamer

A schemer

Take a job, for heaven's sake

With my papa in his business

Please, Hubie

Dreamer, schemer, shmeemer

Look around, you'll find out what's the score

We're not kids no more

Listen, Hubie

Be secure, be safe, be sure

And settle for a job

All I need is an angle

An angle, an angle and some timing

(Take a job please, Hubie) Timing, timing

All I need is an angle

An angle, an angle

It's the angles and the timing that count

Take a job, for heaven's sakes

Take a job please, Hubie

(I couldn't even get a table for my woman) Pressing, cleaning, it's respectable

Hubie (Take a job, for heaven's sake)

I love you (Why should I)

Take a job or be a slob (take a job, like a slob?)