Daddy Worked the Pole - Chuck Mead

Mama down at six nights a week

And the bikers and the businessmen, they at her mystique

They’d lay down their money just to watch her long physique

Daddy played drums in a local rock-roll band

He’d pull up in his '84 customized van

And spend his tips watching Mama shake it to the band

Well now, they got married and Mama, she retired

Daddy got a job on a pole hanging telephone wire

They got everything their little hearts desired

Daddy worked the pole so Mama wouldn’t have to

There was no doubt at all their love was true

Well to make it through, you gotta do what you gotta do

Daddy worked the pole so Mama wouldn’t have to

My Daddy spent eighteen years in the snow and rain

And when he came home, Mama danced while the radio played

I never heard either one of them once complain

When I had to go to college, you know things got real tight

And Mama started thinkin' 'bout those wild and lucrative nights

She’d make three times the money just a-showing off her delights

She explained it all to Daddy and they formed a burlesque troupe

Now he plays drums in a thousand-dollar sharkskin suit

And I’m summa cum laude 'cause Mama’s still got the moves

Now Mama works the pole so Daddy doesn’t have to

There is no doubt at all their love was true

Well to make it through, you gotta do what you gotta do

Now Mama works the pole so Daddy doesn’t have to

Oh Daddy worked the pole so Mama wouldn’t have to