A song about a school teacher which Police lead singer Sting was before he found success in music
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A good question…
Robert Wyatt (and Elvis Costello) worrying about the shipyards closing
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In the UK in the 1980s One In Ten were without a job and to claim unemployment benefits they had to fill in the UB40 form. Hence the song and the band name
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Just A Gigolo - Louis Prima
…life goes on without me.
It more an anti war song but it has ‘working’ in the title plus it’s great (although not as great as the perfect Into The Valley) here’s The Skids and Working For The Yankee Dollar
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Dire Straits, Money For Nothing. Selling microwaves and color TV’s.
Glen Campbell is a lineman for the county
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Billy Joel - The Downeaster Alexa
Also his Allentown
That was going to be my submission. BTW, R.E.M. toured in support of the Document album… it was called the Work Tour.
My submission, with my favorite Strummer lyric: “Let fury have the hour, anger can be power/D’ya know that you can use it?”
I was expecting different song by Dolly Parton with a similar name:
Workin’ at the Car Wash, yeah…
I listened to a bunch of Bow Wow Wow yesterday…
Some people who Never Go To Work…
…but just want to Bang on the Drum all day.
Maybe they should just Get a Job.
In the U.S., the Sheena Easton song was re-named “Morning Train (Nine to Five),” to avoid confusion with Dolly’s song, which had been released just a few months earlier.
Another song called “Get A Job” by The (English) Beat!
Before getting a job (a real one), you first need to get a hair cut…
Also essentially the entire oeuvre by The Jam. Let’s start with Eton Rifles…
And of course: