A truly great job
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Workin’ For MCA (Live 1976) [HQ Audio & HD] - YouTube
Work From Home - Fifth Harmony ft Ty Dollar $ign
The Load Out - Jackson Browne
“The Happy Worker” by Tori Amos, from the “Toys” soundtrack.
A Canadian classic - dedicated to the coal miners of Nova Scotia. - YouTube
Shift work
Weird Al-The Rye Or The Kaiser
My Old Man’s A Dustman by Lonnie Donegan
Benny Hill relates the life and times of Ernie (The Fastest Milkman In The West
The Wurzels assume the voice of a farmer trying to impress his beloved with the boast I’ve Got A Brand New Combine Harvester
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What to do if you’re out of work?
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
More for the white-collar folks, I guess, The Tragically Hip “My Music at Work”
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)
The Smothers Brothers “My Old Man”.
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
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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
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Well not exactly a hedge fund manager.
Working in a chip shop is a noble pursuit…
Maggie’s Farm - Dylan & friends
