(Video) Gary U.S. Bonds sings Springsteen's "Out of Work"

Bruce Springsteen will be appearing--and performing--at some Obama campaign stops in Ohio and Iowa.

Here is one song that he won't be singing--although truth in labeling laws should require it--the tune he wrote for Gary U.S. Bonds, "Out of Work." The E Street Band even backed up Bonds.

Watch Bonds perform it in 2008.

Check out these lyrics:

Eight a.m., I'm up and out
Feet beating on the sidewalk
Down at the unemployment agency
All I get is talk

I check the want ads
But there just ain't nobody hiring
What's a man supposed to do
When he's down and out of work

This song was released in 1982--at the depth of the early '80s recession. But a year later--the Reagan recovery was roaring. Nearly four years into the Obama presidency--after three so-called Recovery Summers, the economy is still flat on its back.

It's time to put Obama "Out of Work."

Oh...here's a line from Springsteen's "Point Blank," a track on The River, that seems to come from today's headlines:

"These days you don't wait on Romeos, you wait on that welfare check."

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