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03/05/2026
When Will We Be Paid
Par The Staple Singers
Album : The Very Best Of
When will we be paid for the work we've done?
When will we be paid for the work we've done?

We have worked this country from shore to shore

Our women cooked all your food and washed all your clothes

We picked all your cotton and laid the railroad steel

Worked our hands to the bone at your lumber mill

I say, when will we be paid for the work we've done?

When will we be paid for the work we've done?

We fought in your wars in every land

To keep this country free, y'all, for women, children and man

But any time we ask for pay alone

That's when everything seems to turn out wrong

We've been beat up, beat up, called names, called names

Shot down and stoned

And every time we do right, someone say we wrong

When will we be paid for the work we've done?
When will we be paid for the work we've done?

We have given our sweat and all our tears

We've stumbled through this life for more than 300 years

We've been separated from the language we knew

Stripped of our culture, people, you know it's true

Tell me now, when will we be paid for the work we've done?

When will we be paid for the work we've done?
(When will we be paid for the work we've done?)

Will we ever be proud of "My country, 'tis of thee"?

(When will we be paid for the work we've done?)

Will we ever sing out loud, "Sweet land of liberty"?

(When will we be paid for the work we've done?)
When will we be paid for the work we've done?
(When will we be paid for the work we've done?)

Tell me now, for the work we've done

(When will we be paid for the work we've done?)

Will we ever have peace and harmony?

(When will we be paid for the work we've done?)

I wanna know, will we ever be paid?

(When will we be paid for the work we've done?)
When will we be paid for the work we've done?
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