Standard (EADGBE)

 Got in my nose

As we carried our ladders down the street

 With the wrought-iron gate rows

I went home and listened to Jimmie Rodgers

 in my lunch-break

Bought five Woodbines at the shop on the corner

 And went straight back to work.

 Oh, Sam was up on top

 And I was on the bottom with the v

We went for lemonade and Paris buns

 At the shop and broke for tea

I collected from the lady

 And I cleaned the fanlight inside-out

I was blowing saxophone on the weekend

 In that down joint.

What's my line?

 I'm happy cleaning windows

Take my time

 I'll see you when my love grows

Baby don't let it slide

 I'm a working man in my prime

 Cleaning windows (number a hundred and thirty-six)

Second Verse

I heard Leadbelly and Blind Lemon

On the street where I was born

Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee,

Muddy Waters singin' I'm A Rolling Stone

I went home and read my Christmas Humphreys' book on Zen

Curiosity killed the cat

Kerouac's Dharma Bums and On The Road

Second Chorus

What's my line?

I'm happy cleaning windows

Take my time

I'll see you when my love grows

Baby don't let it slide

I'm a working man in my prime

Cleaning windows