Songs that have to do with "work, labor..."

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[AppleDumpling]

Bang The Drum All Day - Todd Rundgren

Every day when I get home from work
I feel so frustrated
The boss is a jerk

And I get my sticks and go out to the shed
And I pound on that drum like it was the boss's head
Because

I don't want to work
I want to bang on the drum all day
I don't want to play
I just want to bang on the drum all day

 

[E&Cmom]

Happy Working Song- From Enchanted

 

[Pea-n-Me]

 

[MataHari22]

How about a couple of Disney tunes. Whistle While You Work and High Ho, Hi ho.

 

[Julie's Haircut]

Found A Job by Talking Heads (More Songs About Buildings and Food album)

 

[PollyannaMom]

The Workingman's Hymn
- Joshua Davis

[Verse 1]
Some people hunger for the greenback bill
Some folks hunger for the top of the hill
Some people just tryin' to get a decent meal
Well I know that we can turn it around
Some people sleepin' in a fine feather bed
Some folks are dreamin' of an old homestead
Some just need a place to lay their head
Well I know that we can turn it around

[Chorus]
I know that we can turn it around
There's one thing that I've found
If there's a force in the dim singin' a workingman's hymn
I know that we can turn it around

[Verse 2]
River bottom up to home on high
In the light of the endless sky
Jetsettin' or just gettin' by
I know that we can turn it around

[Chorus]
I know that we can turn it around
There's one thing that I've found
If there's a force in the dim singin' a workingman's hymn
I know that we can turn it around

[Bridge]
From the 9th Ward up to Patoka Lake
One man's joy's been another man's pain
But the sun keeps shinin' through the drivin' rain
And I know that we can turn it around

[Chorus]
I know that we can turn it around
There's one thing that I've found
If there's a force in the dim singin' a workingman's hymn
I know that we can turn it around
I know that we can turn it around
There's one thing that I've found
If there's a force in the dim singin' a workingman's hymn
I know that we can turn it around
I know that we can turn it around

 

[Vijoge]

 

[DisneyDad1960]

5 O'Clock World - The Vogues
The Load Out - Jackson Browne
Working Man - Rush

 

[Cannot_Wait_4Disney]

Natalie Merchant. Which side are you on?

Originally written by Florence Reece, 1931 Harlan County Kentucky after Police, hired by the mine company illegally entered her home and terrorized her.

Factory. Bruce Springsteen.

16 Tons Tennessee Earnie Ford.

Also not the original artist. Merle Travis is the original credited recording artist and writer.

 

[Cannot_Wait_4Disney]

Woodie guthrie

1913 Massacre

 

[Cannot_Wait_4Disney]

Joe Hill Paul Robeson.

Originally by Alfred Hayes, Music Earl Robinson.

 

[Cannot_Wait_4Disney]

Pete Seeger. Cotton Mill Colic.

 

[Disneylover99]

My Eyes Adored You - The Four Seasons

My eyes adored you
Though I never laid a hand on you
My eyes adored you
Like a million miles away
From me you couldn't see
How I adored you
So close, so close
And yet so far away

Carried your books from school
Playing make-believe you're married to me
You were fifth grade, I was sixth
When we came to be

Walking home every day over
Barnegat Bridge and Bay
Till we grew into the me and you
Who went our separate ways

My eyes adored you
Though I never laid a hand on you
My eyes adored you
Like a million miles away
From me you couldn't see
How I adored you
So close, so close
And yet so far

Headed for city lights
Climbed the ladder up
to fortune and fame
I worked my fingers to the bone
Made myself a name

Funny, I seem to find that
no matter how the years unwind
Still I reminisce about the girl I miss
And the love I left behind

My eyes adored you
Though I never laid a hand on you
My eyes adored you
Like a million miles away
From me you couldn't see
How I adored you
So close, so close
And yet so far

All my life I will remember
How warm and tender
We were way back then
Though I'm feeling sad regrets
I know I won't ever forget
You, my childhood friend

My eyes adored you
Though I never laid a hand on you
My eyes adored you
Like a million miles away
From me you couldn't see
How I adored you
So close, so close
And yet so far

 

[PollyannaMom]

Allentown
Billy Joel

Well we're living here in Allentown
And they're closing all the factories down
Out in Bethlehem they're killing time
Filling out forms
Standing in line
Well our fathers fought the Second World War
Spent their weekends on the Jersey Shore
Met our mothers in the USO
Asked them to dance
Danced with them slow
And we're living here in Allentown

But the restlessness was handed down
And it's getting very hard to stay

Well we're waiting here in Allentown
For the Pennsylvania we never found
For the promises our teachers gave
If we worked hard
If we behaved

So the graduations hang on the wall
But they never really helped us at all
No they never taught us what was real
Iron and coal
And chromium steel
And we're waiting here in Allentown

But they've taken all the coal from the ground
And the union people crawled away

Every child has a pretty good shot
To get at least as far as their old man got
But something happened on the way to that place
They threw an American flag in our place

Well I'm living here in Allentown
And it's hard to keep a good man down
But I won't be giving up today

And we're living here in Allentown

 

[Gary M]

"Chain Gang"-Sam Cooke

 

[Mrs. Ciz]

Hollies – Do You Love Me


...different kind of work though

 

[mrsheppo]

Shift Work - Kenny Chesney

 

[Disneylover99]

You and Me - Alice Cooper

When I get home from work,
I want to wrap myself around you.
I want to take you and squeeze you
till the passion starts to rise.

I want to take you to heaven.
That would make my day complete.

But you and me ain't no movie stars.
What we are is what we are.
We share a bed,
some lovin',
and TV, yeah.
And that's enough for a workin' man.
What I am is what I am.
And I tell you, babe,
well that's enough for me.

Sometimes when you're asleep
and I'm just starin' at the ceiling,
I want to reach out and touch you,
but you just go on dreamin'.

If I could take you to heaven,
that would make my day complete.

But you and me ain't no movie stars.
What we are is what we are.
We share a bed,
some lovin',
and TV, yeah.
That's enough for a workin' man.
What I am is what I am.
And I tell you, sweetheart
that's just enough for me.

You and me ain't no super stars.
What we are is what we are.
We share a bed,
some popcorn,
and TV, yeah.
And that's enough for a workin' man.
What I am is what I am.
And I tell you, babe,
you're just enough for me.

When I get home from work,
I want to wrap myself around you.
I like to hold you squeeze you
till the passion starts to rise.

I want to take you to heaven.
That would make my day complete.

You and me ain't no movie stars.
What we are is what we are.
We share a bed,
of lovin',
and TV, yeah.
And that's enough for a workin' man.
What I am well that's what I am.
I tell you, baby,
that's just enough for me.

 

[Atlas722]

Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Don't Llok Now (It Ain't You or Me)" and "Working Man"

Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Working for MCA"