Second Class wait here - John Schumann & The Vagabond Crew (Lawson)
On suburban railway stations-you may see them as you pass - There are signboards on the windows saying, “Wait here, Second Class”; And to me the whirr and thunder and the clack of running gear Seem to be forever saying, saying “Second Class wait here” -
“Wait here, Second Class, Second Class wait here…”
And the second class were waiting in the days of serf and prince, And the second class are waiting - we’ve been waiting ever since There are signboards in the background, and the line is bare and drear, Yet they wait beneath a signboard, sneering "Second class wait here
More Songs About Workers and Labor (for Labor Day)
Feel Like a Number - Bob Seger
Blue Collar Man (Long Nights) - Styx
Workin’ for a Livin’ - Huey Lewis and the News
You Gotta Go Down And Join The Union - Woody Guthrie
Ballard of 1891 - The Bushwackers
The price of wool was falling in 1891
The men who owned the acres saw something must be done
"We will break the Shearers’ Union, and show we’re masters still
And they’ll take the terms we give them, or we’ll find the ones who will
From Claremont to Barcaldine, the shearers’ camps were full
Ten thousand blades were ready to strip the greasy wool
When through the west like thunder, rang out the Union’s call
“The sheds’ll be shore Union or they won’t be shorn at all”