# 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:** 7
### Author:  [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2021, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-work/949895/121 "2021-09-04T03:03:08Z")
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3H4n44V6yw)
> **[Duran Duran - Girls On Film (Uncensored) - Video Dailymotion](https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xh50c)**
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> Bekijk Duran Duran - Girls On Film (Uncensored) - geert hovingh op Dailymotion
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### Author:  [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2021, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-work/949895/122 "2021-09-04T03:07:17Z")
More “working girls”…
_Lady Marmalade_ - LaBelle
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tn0-6n_dng4)
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2021, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-work/949895/123 "2021-09-04T03:19:37Z")
Clothing store.
[![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/QFJNxuVmCoo/hqdefault.jpg ""Weird Al" Yankovic: In 3-D - King Of Suede") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFJNxuVmCoo)
Corporate speak.
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/GyV_UG60dD4/maxresdefault.jpg ""Weird Al" Yankovic - Mission Statement") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyV_UG60dD4)
Specialty store.
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bOwHtvZl2g)
Surgeon.
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/notKtAgfwDA/maxresdefault.jpg ""Weird Al" Yankovic - Like A Surgeon") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=notKtAgfwDA)
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### Author:  [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2021, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-work/949895/124 "2021-09-04T03:29:04Z")
_East Bound And Down_ - Jerry Reed
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQvw2NBCR-E)
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### Author:  [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2021, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-work/949895/125 "2021-09-04T04:06:11Z")
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJTIIfhk2k4)
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d639SjYUX30)
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJtL8vWNZ4o)
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### Author:  [@TCMF-2L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TCMF-2L)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2021, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-work/949895/126 "2021-09-04T06:49:14Z")
I’m not quite sure what she’s doing but according to **Donna Summer She Works Hard For The Money**
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuUEpbGVV2Y)
TCMF-2L
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### Author:  [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2021, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-work/949895/127 "2021-09-04T06:53:50Z")
Even the smallest job can be significant:
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xrfbKTG_xE)
But tea breaks are important too
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGQASun9d8E)
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### Author:  [@TCMF-2L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TCMF-2L)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2021, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-work/949895/128 "2021-09-04T06:55:20Z")
**The Tom Robinson Band** are hard working British lorry drivers in **2-4-6-8 Motorway**
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGrnEc_3mYo)
While the US equivalent is **CW McCall** in his **Convoy**
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sd5ZLJWQmss)
TCMF-2L
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### Author:  [@Topologist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Topologist)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2021, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-work/949895/129 "2021-09-04T12:48:24Z")
Elves are an exploited underclass, per **Barenaked Ladies** ’ **Elf’s Lament.**
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qixiv080feg)
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### Author:  [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2021, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-work/949895/130 "2021-09-04T13:42:17Z")
Been there, done that! Same exact video with her in the waitress get-up. You might want to use the search feature next time. 🙂
Too bad you didn’t go with this one instead.
_Bad Girls_ - Donna Summer
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKU39kYAzPY)
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### Author:  [@TCMF-2L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TCMF-2L)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2021, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-work/949895/131 "2021-09-04T15:16:16Z")
You think I know how to use the search function?
In penance, since the OP opened up from blue collar occupations, I’ll give you an architect with **Simon and Garfunkel** and **So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright**
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cf0RrF6KsI8)
TCMF-2L
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### Author:  [@TCMF-2L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TCMF-2L)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2021, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-work/949895/132 "2021-09-04T15:21:50Z")
**Manic Street Preachers** with **A Design For Life** and the lyric _Libraries gave us power, then work came and made us free_
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfEoVxy7VDQ)
TCMF-2L
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### Author:  [@peccavi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peccavi)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2021, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-work/949895/133 "2021-09-04T16:39:57Z")
The hardest working man in show business…
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J28FWtc0G7k)
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### Author:  [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2021, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-work/949895/134 "2021-09-04T17:26:57Z")
I [Hate](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLOqgqpnFRQ) [Work](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqpOznTpG2M) by **MDC**.
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### Author:  [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2021, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-work/949895/135 "2021-09-04T21:07:39Z")
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGH3B1C7L6Q)
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### Author:  [@peccavi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peccavi)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2021, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-work/949895/136 "2021-09-05T01:13:28Z")
Cowboyin’
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-UFTpiqUts)
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### Author:  [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2021, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-work/949895/137 "2021-09-05T01:19:08Z")
Well, if you’re going there:
Marty Robbins, “160 Acres”
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vg6JXnQfXGs)
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### Author:  [@peccavi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peccavi)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2021, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-work/949895/138 "2021-09-05T01:27:21Z")
In college, I had a friend that told me he had no use for country western music. I loaned him a cassette of this album just before he took a long road trip. When he came back, he told me that, now he was a country western fan. I never got the cassette back.
Keeping to the focus of the thread: It’s hard work cleaning up a town…
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzICMIu5zFY)
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2021, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-work/949895/139 "2021-09-05T01:54:42Z")
Cattle wrangling Down Under.
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alN57dliHgo)
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### Author:  [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2021, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-work/949895/140 "2021-09-05T10:54:42Z")
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHXA260DSS8)
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