C Am C Am C Am C Am C [Verse 1] Am C Yeah, I used to work with a guy named Frankie Acosta Am C We were butter strippers down at the Challenge Creamery Am Striping the cardboard off of seventy pound cubes of butter C Am Yeah, it was hot back then summer of nineteen sixty-three [Verse 2] F And Frankie, man, he'd get so angry C G Am He'd say, "See what the women make me do" F Then he'd break of a splinter from a dirty wooden pallet C G And stick it like a knife in one of those big old butter cubes [Chorus] Am That's what work is F That's what love is Am G F A little pleasure and a little misery G Am Now every time it gets hard out here C G I think of L.A. back in nineteen sixty-three Am C Hey, hey [Verse 3] Am Then I got a job working for the city of Englewood C Am C Running chipper, chipping limbs off of trees Am C I worked with a guy named Crazy Dave Mackland Am And one day he almost ran a tractor over me [Verse 4] F C We were out chopping weeds near South Central G Am When the riots broke out and the skies turned a fiery red and brown F And I called up my girlfriend on a payphone and said "Baby, I love you C G But, ah, I think god's gonna finally burn Gomorra down She said [Chorus] Am That's what work is F That's what love is Am G F You build a house of straw and the flames lick the sky G Am Now every time I fall in love out here C G I think of L.A. back in nineteen sixty-seven [Instrumental] Am F Am G F G Am C G Am C [Verse 5] Am C I finally got a job driving a rose truck Am C Santa Barbara, midnight, to L.A., Fifth and Main Am All jacked up on coffee, cheap speed and doughnuts C Am Walking around the L.A. Flower Market in the rain [Verse 6] F C And every morning I'd eat breakfast at The Pantry down on Figueroa G Am The waiters were always old time, ex-cons F Then we'd load the truck back up with empty rose boxes C G And drive on up the coast through the California dawn [Chorus] Am That's what work is F That's what love is Am G F Two eggs over easy on a T-bone steak G Am Every time I see the sunrise on the ocean C G I think of L.A. back in nineteen sixty-eight [Chorus] Am That's what work is F That's what love is Am G F A little pleasure and a little misery G Am Now every time it gets hard out here C G Am I think of L.A. back in nineteen sixty-three
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