# Songs about Work
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-work/949895
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Tags:** music
**Created:** [September 1, 2021, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-work/949895 "2021-09-01T12:47:29Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 6
### Author:  [@peccavi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peccavi)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2021, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-work/949895/101 "2021-09-02T22:34:25Z")
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gvv33OfmBPM)
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### Author:  [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2021, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-work/949895/102 "2021-09-02T22:36:18Z")
A truly great job
[Lynyrd Skynyrd - Workin’ For MCA (Live 1976) [HQ Audio & HD] - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBNBWRQchig)
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### Author:  [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2021, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-work/949895/103 "2021-09-02T22:47:21Z")
Work From Home - Fifth Harmony ft Ty Dollar $ign
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GL9JoH4Sws)
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### Author:  [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2021, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-work/949895/104 "2021-09-03T04:16:09Z")
_The Load Out_ - Jackson Browne
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdbNiUgOJ74)
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### Author:  [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2021, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-work/949895/105 "2021-09-03T04:56:02Z")
“The Happy Worker” by Tori Amos, from the “Toys” soundtrack.
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfdqDpRV9jI)
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### Author:  [@Mark\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mark_Finn)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2021, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-work/949895/106 "2021-09-03T11:29:10Z")
A Canadian classic - dedicated to the coal miners of Nova Scotia. [- YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-EiwiiAh68)
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### Author:  [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2021, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-work/949895/107 "2021-09-03T11:34:20Z")
Shift work
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfiJEfBNRqg)
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2021, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-work/949895/108 "2021-09-03T11:35:11Z")
Weird Al-The Rye Or The Kaiser
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iwedkOmTGc)
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### Author:  [@TCMF-2L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TCMF-2L)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2021, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-work/949895/109 "2021-09-03T13:33:24Z")
**My Old Man’s A Dustman** by **Lonnie** **Donegan**
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7GeZ3YmONw)
**Benny Hill** relates the life and times of **Ernie (The Fastest Milkman In The West**
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8e1xvyTdBZI)
**The Wurzels** assume the voice of a farmer trying to impress his beloved with the boast **I’ve Got A Brand New Combine Harvester**
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btEpF334Rtc)
TCMF-2L
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### Author:  [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2021, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-work/949895/110 "2021-09-03T19:05:46Z")
What to do if you’re out of work?
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F4yT0KAMyo)
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### Author:  [@anny\_m](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anny_m)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2021, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-work/949895/111 "2021-09-03T20:19:15Z")
The BusBoys _Minimum Wage_:
I have to get up, get to the job
I have to put on my work clothes
I work in a kitchen from eight 'till ten
Go home for a minute just to do it again
How can I find peace of mind
I’m not even living on my own time
When something’s done wrong, what can I say
Someone could send me back home today
I make the minumum wage
I said that I work, I work
For the minimum wage
Tina Turner _Private Dancer_
All the men come in these places
And the men are all the same
You don’t look at their faces
And you don’t ask their names
You don’t think of them as human
You don’t think of them at all
You keep your mind on the money
Keeping your eyes on the wall
I’m your private dancer, a dancer for money
I’ll do what you want me to do
I’m your private dancer, a dancer for money
And any old music will do
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### Author:  [@veryfrank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/veryfrank)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2021, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-work/949895/112 "2021-09-03T20:21:47Z")
More for the white-collar folks, I guess, The Tragically Hip “My Music at Work”
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BN9i5Z01kFI)
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### Author:  [@veryfrank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/veryfrank)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2021, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-work/949895/113 "2021-09-03T20:22:18Z")
Lou Reed “Don’t Talk to me About Work”
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UL_0CTpEh00)
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### Author:  [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2021, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-work/949895/114 "2021-09-03T20:32:09Z")
> [@veryfrank](#):
>
> Lou Reed “Don’t Talk to me About Work”
Another Lou Reed song about the work ethics he learned from Andy Warhol: (from “Songs For Drella”, the Warhol tribute album he did with John Cale)
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71LIi5yRZFQ)
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### Author:  [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2021, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-work/949895/115 "2021-09-03T20:40:45Z")
The Smothers Brothers “My Old Man”.
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SePsUt816PU)
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### Author:  [@TCMF-2L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TCMF-2L)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2021, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-work/949895/116 "2021-09-03T20:45:54Z")
The superb **Up The Junction** by **Squeeze** has lyrics including
_I got a job with Stanley_
_He said I’d come in handy_
_I worked eleven hours_
_And bought the girl some flowers_
and
_I worked all through the winter_
_The weather brass and bitter_
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQciegmLPAo)
TCMF-2L
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### Author:  [@TCMF-2L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TCMF-2L)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2021, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-work/949895/117 "2021-09-03T21:06:37Z")
I don’t know if cult figure **Frank Sidebottom** (used to wear a round papier-mâché fake head) is well known in the rest of the world. He’s not THAT well known in the UK.
But BEFORE becoming Frank he was Chris Sievey and in a band called **The Freshies** who had their biggest (albeit still minor) hit with with **I’m in love with the girl on the Manchester Virgin Megastore Checkout Desk**. The BBC (main British broadcaster) took exception to advertising and the song was re-recorded with ‘certain’ replacing ‘Virgin’ but here’s the original
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvV465SHJBg)
TCMF-2L
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### Author:  [@dbygawdcapn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dbygawdcapn)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2021, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-work/949895/118 "2021-09-03T21:38:12Z")
Well not exactly a hedge fund manager.
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJPWxyye48c)
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### Author:  [@veryfrank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/veryfrank)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2021, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-work/949895/119 "2021-09-03T22:12:45Z")
Working in a chip shop is a noble pursuit…
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QccPUSTMriM)
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### Author:  [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2021, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-work/949895/120 "2021-09-04T02:58:16Z")
_Maggie’s Farm_ - Dylan & friends
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je9MZYOywho)
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