Graveyard shift works all night long it works from sunset till early dawn
   The work is hard but your back is strong graveyard shift works all night long
  
   While everybody else is a snoozin' away I got a night job and I sleep in the day
   It wouldn't be so bad if they paid me good
   But they put me at the bottom of the brotherhood
   Graveyard shift works...
  
   Got a newly wed wife that I never get to see
   By the time I get home it's time for her to be
   Gettin' to work down at the A and P at the rake we're goin' we'll never be three
   Graveyard shift works...
  
   I'm a God fearin' man just as plain as I can be
   A black cup of coffee is good enough for me
   And it takes about a gallon to give me the lift
   That I need to get me through on the graveyard shift
   Graveyard shift works...