So what if I burn my hands   when I unload it?   hot dishes from the    dishwashing machine      It's just my job sir   I do what I'm paid for   You won't catch me walking   home from work crying      Ohhhhhhhhhhhh oh   Ohhhhhhhhhhhh oh   Ohhhhhhhhhhhh oh      So what if this apron has   many stains of red?    andred is the same color   that runs in my veins      I'm just a number   swimming in water   I'm just another    dirty dish in the machine      Ohhhhhhhhhhhh oh   Ohhhhhhhhhhhh oh   Ohhhhhhhhhhhh oh      Every dish I wash   I wash for someone else   I ain't an old woman   on the beach collecting shells      So what if I could have made   millions in the stock market?   I never much understood    numbers anyway      I wash the dishes   someone must do that   people don't want   to eat their food    off dirty plates      Ohhhhhhhhhhhh oh   Ohhhhhhhhhhhh oh   Ohhhhhhhhhhhh oh      And so what if people are   walking right by me and   seeing right through me?   I do the same to them      And who cares that the planet   is turning on cruelty?   a cold metal axis that   cuts off my head      Ohhhhhhhhhhhh oh   Ohhhhhhhhhhhh oh   Ohhhhhhhhhhhh oh      Maybe some day all the people   in the world so big and wide   will turn just like a record    over to their other side