LAID-OFF IN AUTUMN Words & Music Lenny Solomon

© L. Solomon 2008

I’ve been making cars

For almost 20 years

Building up the front ends

That helps to make ‘em steer

I bought me a little house

To raise my family well

Now I’m on a bread line

The future, I can’t tell

Laid-off in Autumn, little notice at all

I was just leaving, when I got the call

They said please leave pronto, then said nothing more

Laid-off in Autumn, shoved right out of the door

I’ve been a teacher

In a town where I grew up

Giving back to my community

In good times and in rough

But the people I grew up with

Turned down the tax increase

The would have kept, my school open

Instead, it got an early release

Laid-off in Autumn, little notice at all

I was just leaving, when I got the call

They said please leave pronto, then said nothing more

Laid-off in Autumn, shoved right out of the door

I’ve always been an able man

Who worked not only for pay

Trying to solve some problems

To give everyone a better day

Looking for some answers

To help my society

But the moneymen soon lost interest

When they couldn’t get a guarantee

Laid-off in Autumn, little notice at all

I was just leaving, when I got the call

They said please leave pronto, then said nothing more

Laid-off in Autumn, shoved right out of the door