Florence Reece’s Which Side Are You On?
Here’s Pete Seeger singing it: Pete Seeger "Which Side Are You On?" - YouTube
One song that is perhaps the most apt given the thread subject:
Another about a working stiff whose career doesn’t go as planned:
In Money, Money, Money Swedish Pop Giants ABBA sing ‘I work all day I work all night to pay the bills I have to pay’
In Echo Beach Martha and the Muffins sing ‘My job is very boring I’m an office clerk’
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Another Johnny Cash song - Oney
Any musicians who don’t have a suitable song for inclusion in this thread need to take the sage advise from The Offspring in their Beatles inspired classic Get A Job
The actual Beatles had songs about traffic wardens
Authors
And the taxman
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A lot of great working songs!
Nice live performance. I was going to post either this one or the one I decided on, “Working Man” by Rush.
Always preferred the Tommy Shaw songs over the Dennis DeYoung influenced songs.
Thanks, that really pinged the MTV nostalgia meter. One thing I noticed listening to the song I never did before-- I knew the part of the lyrics that went
He tells me in his bedroom voice
C’mon honey, let’s go make some noise
But I never noticed (they’re kind of hard to make out) that the lyrics just before say:
Of all my nights
Why did my lover have to pick last night
To get down?
(Last night, last night)
Doesn’t it matter
That I have to feed the both of us?
So, in that scenario, this moocher has Susannah Hoffs for a sugar momma? Lucky guy!
That was great, thanks. I love hearing those old songs from a bygone era. Surprisingly good sound quality for the 20s too.
Another on the short list of the working-related songs I had thought of off the top of my head!
And also this one!
…and of course this one!
Fair enough!
Nice work if you can get it…?
More Weird Al.
I don’t believe this has been posted!
Industrial Disease - Dire Straights
The Factory by Warren Zevon:
Casey Jones - Grateful Dead
The Who - The Dirty Jobs
Rocket Man - Elton John
A different kind of “work.” 
Celebrating the entrepreneurial spirit.
Davy’s On The Road Again by Manfred Mann’s Earth Band always sounds to me like being a touring rock musician is a soul destroying drudge (as it may well be.)
Motörhead, even after acknowledging the hardships involved, seem to enjoy the life of a roadie
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Rob Halford of Judas Priest is a Killing Machine. Pay me the money and I’ll do the job.
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Keep on Working / Pete Townshend
Van Morrison again: I’ve Been Working
The lyrics are about a union man happily joining his comrades in sticking it to the company and driving it to ruin - in fact 60 Minutes used it as a backdrop to a story about British strikes forcing firms into bankruptcy. So if it became a union anthem, it says something about labor relations and the economy of that time.
Great song though.
I’m taking care of business, woman, can’t you see?
