Daddy Worked the Pole

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