The wheelbarrow's fallen
   Look at my hands
   They've found some surplus cheaper hands
   Rubbing palms and pick and choose,
   who will they choose? Here is the news.
  
   Look at that building, look at this man
   Haloed and whitewashed
   Gone to find a cheaper hand
   he'll offer a pound, offer a pound.
  
   Green grow the rushes go
   Green grow the rushes go
   Green grow the rushes go
   The compass points the workers home
  
   Pay for your freedom, find another gate
   Guilt by associate, the rushes wilted a long time ago
   Guilty as you go
  
   Stay off that highway, word is it's not so safe
   The grasses that hide the greenback
   The amber waveso f gain again
   The amber waves of gain
  
   Green grow the rushes go
   Green grow the rushes go
   Green grow the rushes go
   The compass points the workers home