I'm sick of working on the land

I wanna work with machines and look handsome

I have been indulging in ostentatious display

Doing little more than eat three square meals a day

And I've been shirking my duty

I've been sending gifts to carry favor

But because I love you and because you love me

A model worker I'll willingly be

I need a holiday I've not been well

Take me to the Brocade River Hotel

And I just wanna know while the revolution lasts

Will it enable me to swallow broken glass

I'm not too worried by hegemony

I know the cadre will look after me

And I just wanna know while the revolution lasts

Will it enable me to swallow broken glass

I have been indulging in ostentatious display

Doing little more than eat three square meals a day

But because I love you and because you love me

A model worker I'll willingly be

A model worker I'll willingly be

A model worker I'll willingly be