Songs about working/being on the job

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mailmandan

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Taking Care of Business - Bachman Turner Overdrive

Bang On The Drum All Day - Todd Rundgren
 
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[video=youtube;CkQQbRqLoCI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkQQbRqLoCI[/video]
 

Lynx

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That's just what the Lord gave me to do.
[video=youtube;s2MKIavKQ94]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2MKIavKQ94[/video]
 

mar09

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Loren's version.
[video=youtube;XZlcrgp1myc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZlcrgp1myc[/video]
 

mar09

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[video=youtube;0ImgFnsgONU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ImgFnsgONU[/video]
 

mar09

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[video=youtube;Jt4BbQtaN64]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jt4BbQtaN64[/video]
 

mar09

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[video=youtube;W56BwpT_Y3w]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W56BwpT_Y3w[/video]
 

mar09

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[video=youtube;Ri8qJmiGXgk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ri8qJmiGXgk[/video]
I do not really know these songs... but on searching for a few to post, i am finding more! I hope many others also appreciate the living words from these old songs.
 

mar09

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You can come sing along!
[video=youtube;yptIt_n077E]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yptIt_n077E[/video]
 

mar09

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[video=youtube;Ns3ZVtm3TgY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ns3ZVtm3TgY[/video]
 
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Workin’ on the Railroad
Workin’ in a Coal Mine
Working Class Man - well kinda :p
 
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Somebody else may have put this however I’m going to do it anyway -


Working Nine to Five – Dolly Parton

 

Desdichado

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[video=youtube;ECNcAnu77a4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECNcAnu77a4[/video]
 

hornetguy

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16 Tons.... by Tennessee Ernie Ford...

Big Bad John.... by Jimmy Dean

Workin at the Carwash Blues... by Jim Croce

Banana Boat Song.... by Harry Belafonte
 

SovereignGrace

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She's works hard for the money--Diana Summers
 

mar09

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[video=youtube;TMWZ50QyoMU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMWZ50QyoMU[/video]
 

zeroturbulence

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[video=youtube;zL8G5pBZ5CI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zL8G5pBZ5CI[/video]
 

Magenta

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Joni Mitchell Free Man In Paris

[video=youtube;jQj6h8KpkiQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQj6h8KpkiQ[/video]

The way I see it, he said, you just can't win it
Everybody's in it for their own gain
You can't please them all
There's always somebody callin' you down

I do my best and I do good business
There;s a lot of people asking for my time
They're trying to get ahead
They're tryin' to be a good friend of mine

I was a free man in Paris,
I felt unfettered and alive
There was nobody calling me up for favors
And no one's future to decide

You know I'd go back there tomorrow
But for the work I'm taking on
Stoking the star maker machinery
Behind the popular song


I deal in dreamers and telephone screamers
Lately I wonder what I do it for
If I had my way
I'd just walk through those doors
And wander down the Champs-Élysées
Going café to cabaret
Thinking how I'll feel when I find
That very good friend of mine

I was a free man in Paris
I felt unfettered and alive
Nobody was calling me up for favors
No one's future to decide

You know I'd go back there tomorrow
But for the work I've taken on
Stoking the star-maker machinery
Behind the popular song


 

SovereignGrace

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Coal Miner's daughter...Loretta Lynn

True story.

I was raised ~ 1 hour from her home place in Johnson County, Ky called Butcher Hollow(we pronounce it holler). A few years ago, the wifey, my M-I-L and your's truly went and took a tour of the house she was raised in. One of her brothers, can't remember his name, still lives within yellin' distance of that house and does tours through it. Boy, he's a talker, too. But I liked him a lot, seeing I am quite the talker, too. It was neat. It was like taking a time machine back to the 1940's-1950's.