[Fiji Hill]

WPA, WPA.
Sleep while you work while you rest while you play.
Lean on your shovel to pass time away.
'Tain't what you do, you can jive for your pay.
WPA.

Wpa, WPA
Don't be a fool working hard, it's passé
You'll stand for five or six hours a day.
Sit down and smoke while you joke; it's OK
WPA.

I'm so tired, I don't know what to do.
Can't get fired,
So I'll take my rest till my work is through.

WPA, WPA.
Don't mind the boss if he's cross when you're gay.
He'll get a pink slip next week, anyway.
Nobody beats this. You loaf every day.
WPA.

Skeets Tolbert & His Orchestra, Decca Records, 1940

[Androcles]

Nobody beats this. You loaf every day.

My god: It's like holding a directorship or being in Congress or the Senate now!