Romeo Joe

Take the West Side Highway down past the factories and the neighborhoods

That river don't wash no one clean but some of us just hide it good

Stamping plant's the only thing that keeps union hearts beating here

We don't know from day to day if the layoff's coming – they don't say

Hand in hand Joe and I would ride the carousel at Crystal Bay

Saw him again in a river bar where Ford men go to drown the day

Forever, forever, forever, forever

Friday nights we'd drive around looking for something we could do

We sang every song on the radio – way out loud and out of tune

One night he said, You know I love you honey, so put that white dress on and let's do this thing