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also recorded by The Kootz on the album: The Endless Bus Tour of New Jersey, 2004

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SUPERVISOR BLUES
I ain't learned no grammar
I ain't getting no wiser
I can hit you with a hammer
cause I'm your supervisor
on a fine spring day
you can smell the buttercup
if you got sumptin to say, boy
I'm gonna Write You Up
'cause I'm the supervisor
I ain't no wiser or chic
but I wear the WHITE badge and
make 10 dollars more than you a week

It's 9AM - you just got off the number 1
if you want to make it on time, you better run
because something's gonna happen-
it happens every time
if it's 9:03, you're gonna be RED LINED!!
'cause I'm the supervisor
a mental midget and a hack
but my nose it too brown
to give your union nose a whack

it's 10 o'clock - you're feeling sick and nervous
well that's just bad luck
you gotta go to health service
but the doctor's not in, that doctor's never there!
you better come back downstairs
and bill some Medicare
'cause I'm the supervisor
my age is higher than my I.Q.
I'm gonna watch you all day
'cause I ain't got nothin' better to do

it's quarter to 5 - you head for the locker
if that girl thinks she's gonna leave,
I'm gonna dock her
'cause you know us superpeople don't care about the clock
we never get overtime and we never get docked
they call us supervisors - a classless bunch of whiney old wrecks
but we're the ones you kiss it to
'cause we're the ones who'll hold up your CHECKS
(c)1986 pub. Breet Music, BMI All rights reserved

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from SQUARES IN PAIRS 2021 .​.​.​.​36th anniversary edition, released May 15, 1986
Blind Lemon Pledge (Dennis McGrath)- free form harmonicas
CB- guitars, drum programming, synth bass, organ, vocals

-Engineer & Mix: Chris Breetveld 1985
-Recorded: WABE Recorders, Astoria Queens, NY - thanks to Eric Block for lending the keys to his apartment for an afternoon.

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The Breetles Princeton, New Jersey

The Breetles, an American power-pop band, are Chris Breetveld and anyone who plays Breetles songs, with or without him. They became one of the founding rocks of the "Kendall Park (New Jersey) Sound" starting around 1982. They have been described as the illegitimate flower-child of The Who, The Beatles, XTC, The Kinks, Mrs. Miller and Cheap Trick. Power-pop, cleverly-stupid, quiet is the new loud. ... more

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