The Jimmy Hoffa Memorial Building Blues Lyrics & Chords By Danny O'keefe

O'Keefe

They're putting up a building down on Main Street
Paid for with all those truckers' dues
But the man who laid the first stone on the corner
Had the Jimmy Hoffa Memorial Building Blues

Now some say Jimmy's down in Argentina
Others tell you that he simply changed his name
And a surgeon made him look a bit like Nixon
But aside from that he's still pretty much the same

Where's Jimmy? Where's Jimmy?
That's a question I know we all would love to know
Where's Jimmy? Where's Jimmy?
He's gone to where those good ol' boys all go

Now the gang that runs the union said to Jimmy
Here's what we're all prepared to do
We're gonna build the Boys a brand new union building
And we want you to dedicate it, too

But I heard a rumor down at the dedication
From the kinda guy who has a nose for news
He said Jimmy died of terminal cement poisoning
And the Jimmy Hoffa Memorial Building Blues

They said, Here's a thing you men can all be proud of
They laid a horseshoe wreath upon the cornerstone
They said, Here's to freight and the Great American Freeway
And the man who helped us make it all our own

Where's Jimmy? Where's Jimmy?
That's a question I know we all would love to know
Where's Jimmy? Where's Jimmy?
He's gone to where those good ol' boys all go