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Labor is a thing I do not like; / Workin's makes me want to go on strike; / Sittin' in an office on a sunny afternoon, / Thinkin' o' nothin' but a ragtime tune.
'Cause I got the blues, I said I got the blues, / I got the paragraphic blues.
Been a-sittin' here since ha' pas' ten, / Bitin' a hole in my fountain pen; / Brain's all stiff in the creakin' joints, / Can't make up no wheezes on the Fourteen Points; / Can't think o' nothin' 'bout the end o' booze, / 'Cause I got the para -- , I said the paragraphic, I mean the column / conductin' blues.