Labor Day Weekend Songs about work

[theWB]

James McMurtry ~ Painting By Numbers

 

[Saint Johnny]

Eddie Cochrane-Summertime Blues

 

[grillebilly]

Billy Bragg- There Is Power In a Union
The Jam- Smithers-Jones
New Riders of the Purple Sage- Dirty Business
one of the all time greats- Tennessee Ernie Ford -Sixteen Tons
At least a thousand truck driving songs

 

[beans]

Gino Vanelli - The Work Verse

 

[Permanent Waves]

How did this one get overlooked?


Working Man-Rush

Beat me to it!


Don't really know of many others..."The Big Money"? :lmao:

 

[usedto]

All you youngsters!!!!!!!!!!!

Tennessee Ernie Ford - "Sixteen Tons"

 

[kermit z]

9 to 5 - Dolly Parton

 

[Saint Johnny]

Elvis Costello-Welcome To The Working Week....I know it don't thrill you...I hope it don't kill you

 

[Dustin]

Pablo Cruise - Family man.

 

[Cadillac Kid]

Van Morrison - Cleaning Windows
Jackson Browne - The Pretender

(Great thread)

 

[jimbofish]

Makin' Thunderbirds-Bob Seger
We Gotta Get Outta This Place-Animals

 

[Saint Johnny]

Bob Dylan-Maggies Farm

 

[caddisgeek]

Dave Dudley - Six Days on the Road
MDC - I hate work

 

[Saint Johnny]

Lynyrd Skynyrd-Working For MCA

 

[avionic]

Dire Straits--Industrial Disease
Bruce Springsteen--Working on the Highway
Billy Joel--Allentown

 

[Pavioni]

Ry Cooder - "My Name Is Buddy" - the entire album is a retro tribute to the Depression era labor movement and the working man.

 

[mhardy6647]

Jim Croce Working at the Carwash Blues
Pete Townshend Keep on Working (from Empty Glass)

 

[spok]

DEVO ~ Working in a Coal Mine

 

[Permanent Waves]

Thought of a few:

John Lennon - Working Class Hero

The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night

Sheena Easten - Morning Train

 

[grateful]

Working Man's Dead