Misc Originals – David Warmke - Working The Night Shift At Efco (Guitar)

D Tuning (D-G-C-F-A-D)
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[Chorus]
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IN high school   I worked at Food City

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Bagging, stocking and checking

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College summers  worked the night shift at EFCO

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Living an   old school   industrial life
[Verse 1]
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EFCO Engineers and Fabricators Company

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My dad a machinist there from 42 to 85

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Running the lone milling machine

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I was on nights in assembly
[Verse 2]
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Making Heat exchanges for refineries

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Occasionally Nuclear Power Plants

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You had Machinist, rollers, tube pushers, welders

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Grinders and assembly men.
[Verse 3]
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Worked with Bo, Joe, Jody, Ron, Steve a few more

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Bo was the foreman, sitting in AC   drawing circles

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Joe was the lead man, a Pollack who could do anything

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Old Jody mostly sat, Greased studs  hate  salted tomatoes
[Verse 4]
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Ron was the roller man, always a cigarette in hand

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Me and Steve were summer help

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Steve a preaches kid going Trinity

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Pl aying football and Stealing alligators form the SA Zoo
[Chorus]
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IN high school   I worked at Food City

D                      G
Bagging, stocking and checking

G             C                  A             D
In College summers  working the night shift at EFCO

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Living life on the old school   industrial side
[Verse 5]
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We pulled   bundles of tubes  in to the big pipe

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Bolted it together and pressure tested it with air

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then High pressure water, Thousands of PSI

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When things were slow we‘d and grease studs with jody
[Verse 6]
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It was fun, better than sacking groceries

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But not a job for life

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Got partially scalped the first year

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 Last day I was there Joe had me move a bundle
[Verse 7]
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I had run a tandem  crane be3fore

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My first time , I did it  I  without question

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You had to time it just right, tap, wait push

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I got it just wrong; a 10,000 lb. pendulum was swinging
[Verse 8]
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People were scattering, Joe took control

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He set it down, all was just fine

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I went outside the rest of the night

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Could have killed somebody,
[Chorus]
D                               A
In high school   I worked at Food City

D                      G
Bagging, stocking and checking

G             C                  A             D
In College summers  working the night shift at EFCO

D                                       A
Living life on the old school   industrial side
[Outro]
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I EFCO now gone along with lifetime jobs

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Condos took its place

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Those two summers had a glimpse of life a generation  before

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Working the night shift at EFCO
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