Folk & Traditional Song Lyrics www.traditionalmusic.co.uk I Am the Common Man 
I Am the Common Man (Words by Joe Corrie, tune by Alan Reid.) 
I am the Common Man. I am the brute and the slave. I am the fool, the despised, From the cradle to the grave. 
I am the hewer of coal. I am the tiller of soil. I am serf of the seas, Born to bear and to toil. 
I am the builder of halls. I am the dweller of slums. I am the filth and the scourge When winter's depression comes. 
I am the fighter of wars. I am the killer of men, Not for a day or an age, But again and again and again. 
I am the Common Man, But, Masters of mine, take heed, For you have put into my head Oh! Many a wicked deed. 
Recorded by the Battlefield Band. XX