Labor day! Songs about the workin' life.....

[Bennyboy]

I Ain't gonna work.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzf1BM-AJ2A

[rug]

1. Sixteen Tons

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUpTJg2EBpw

[struggle4progress]

2. Joe Hill

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEqSu8MssP4

[struggle4progress]

21. The Tramp

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f--dCVyLpbk

[struggle4progress]

24. The Preacher and the Slave

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ca_MEJmuzMM

[bluedigger]

3. Happy Labor Day, fellow travelers, wage earners, and seekers of per diem!

Pay me my money down! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTF2ZkqCa4M

[struggle4progress]

4. The Popular Wobbly

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouf_Xco8dw8

[Ptah]

5. Whistle while you work

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOL0rMBdNKw {3:35}

[Bennyboy]

6. Working On The Highway

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVsIHcEg94U

[struggle4progress]

7. Solidarity Forever

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fcjdhhijA0

[struggle4progress]

8. Talking Union

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osnjAb-hoPo

[struggle4progress]

9. Roll The Union On

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4YeDI4R9MA

[struggle4progress]

10. Deportee

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jWFPLjYEaw

[struggle4progress]

26. Ballad of Sacco and Vanzetti

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cl3_5X_FLwI

[struggle4progress]

11. Pastures Of Plenty

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_v2hg_G-BRw

[IcyPeas]

12. Get a Job (Sha na na)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKDT72GVEZI

[struggle4progress]

13. No More Auction Block

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EYOW3ShOpY

[femmocrat]

14. "9 to 5" -- Dolly Parton n/t

[femmocrat]

15. "She Works Hard for the Money" -- Donna Summer

[femmocrat]

17. "Bread and Roses" (1911) n/t

[femmocrat]

20. "Car Wash" -- Rose Royce n/t

[femmocrat]

22. "Maggie's Farm" -- Bob Dylan n/t

[struggle4progress]

16. Black Lung

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnyYODhW4zI

[Bennyboy]

32. Thanx for the tunes..

Awesome stuff you are posting.

[struggle4progress]

44. People been doin some hard singin about this long time

[struggle4progress]

18. Miner's Lifeguard

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJyioISLYHU

[IcyPeas]

19. Elvis Costello - Welcome to the Working Week

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSRg9GPfFgE

[femmocrat]

23. "Take This Job and Shove It" -- Johnny Paycheck n/t

[struggle4progress]

25. Ludlow Massacre

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDd64suDz1A

[struggle4progress]

27. New York Mining Disaster 1941

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCRqAzCevsY

[struggle4progress]

28. Freight Train Wreck At Altoona

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XoB9DoRHxg

[struggle4progress]

29. Brown Eyed Children Of The Sun

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyH913Q29g0

[Doc_Technical]

30. "Working in a coal mine" by Lee Dorsey

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lsK6mmx9oU&feature=fvst

[Danmel]

31. Blue sky mine by midnight oil

But if I work all day on the blue sky mine
(There'll be food on the table tonight)
Still I walk up and down on the blue sky mine
(There'll be pay in your pocket tonight)

The candy store paupers lie to the shareholders
They're crossing their fingers they pay the truth makers
The balance sheet is breaking up the sky

So I'm caught at the junction still waiting for medicine
The sweat of my brow keeps on feeding the engine
Hope the crumbs in my pocket can keep me for another night

And if you blue sky mining company won't come to my rescue
If the sugar refining company won't save me

Who's gonna save me?

But if I work all day on the blue sky mine
(There'll be food on the table tonight)
And if I walk up and down on the blue sky mine
(There'll be pay in your pocket tonight)
And some have sailed from a distant shore
And the company takes what the company wants
And nothing's as precious
As a hole in the ground

[struggle4progress]

33. Peg and Awl

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_3N3kPWV3E

[struggle4progress]

34. Look for the Union Label

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Lg4gGk53iY

[struggle4progress]

35. Hard Times Cotton Mill Girls

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTUJMbL3Dao

[ornotna]

36. Part of the Union

Strawbs

http://youtu.be/KdOCWUgwiWs

[struggle4progress]

37. No Irish Need Apply

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXkgUqD4_EY

[struggle4progress]

38. Babies In The Mill

Babies In The Mill

[Dystopian]

39. Working Man-RUSH

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vB6sRQQBH6E


I love this song.


peace~

[struggle4progress]

40. Oh Freedom!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHmUPqI6w9g

[Rhiannon12866]

41. Working Class Hero - John Lennon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njG7p6CSbCU

[MiddleFingerMom]

60. As someone already mentioned, John Lennon's "Working Class Hero".

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When I was at our local community radio station, the walls were lined with many THOUSANDS of CD's and --
as long as it was within the loose boundaries of whatever type of music our show was oriented towards...
we could play anything we wanted.
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There was SOMEBODY out there in the listening audience that anyone who had been onair for a minimal
amount of time was familiar with -- for YEARS, he would call and request "Working Class Hero". Those
who KNEW just how many heavily-FCC-fineable F-bombs that song contained would often simply spam him
back -- telling him they would play it towards the end of the show... without ever really intending to do so.
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But... every once in a great while, he would catch somebody inexperienced who would miss the warning
label and play it.
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Most of us found this man's obsession with getting people to play it onair to be extremely annoying
while, simultaneously for some, finding his tenacity and success rate to be fairly impressive.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njG7p6CSbCU
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[struggle4progress]

42. Chain gang

www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2XHYKWLGTg

[Odin2005]

43. Just another Manic Monday, wish it was Sunday, cuz that's my fun day...

...and I-don't-have-to-run day...

:)

[struggle4progress]

45. Slave Song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ym5zjRRTqU0

[ornotna]

46. Blood by The Ton

Stephen Davis

http://youtu.be/ix7RoAHR1S4

[struggle4progress]

47. Old Chisolm Trail

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWSRHgmrtmI

[ornotna]

48. Which side are you on

Florence Reece - Natalie Merchant

http://youtu.be/TfWzLa1faLA

[struggle4progress]

49. Harriett Tubman

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6MpN2GfBCQ

[struggle4progress]

50. Bracero

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bg6LLifoRHo

[Withywindle]

51. Dream of a Miner's Child - Ralph Stanley

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0An6x5NIvH4

[Withywindle]

52. Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9A4HRzHz5Y&feature=fvst

[Withywindle]

53. My Little Shirtwaist Fire - Rasputina

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkzll37266Y

[Withywindle]

54. Deportee/ Plane Wreck at Los Gatos - Arlo Guthrie & Emmylou Harris

(song written by Woody Guthrie)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TN3HTdndZec

[abq e streeter]

55. Bruce Springsteen--Factory

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hd7803hSxA&feature=related

[Rowdyboy]

56. Joan Baez..."The Salt of the Earth"

[Waiting For Everyman]

57. Makin' Thunderbirds

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CW5GRilRyE

[Waiting For Everyman]

58. Summer Wages

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ae4KwdC_dDI

[Waiting For Everyman]

59. One Way

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5IoZZNaLsc

The Boatman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogeUUkwEsJs

[Waiting For Everyman]

61. Louisiana Man

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC24QA0la48

[A-Schwarzenegger]

62. Bob Dylan - Union Sundown

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0mTVJI6ypI

[Waiting For Everyman]

63. The Pretender

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQiXQUGbac0

[Waiting For Everyman]

64. But I Might Die Tonight - Cat Stevens

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3lgq8dKRII

[chollybocker]

65. Union City Blue - Blondie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TF4e8wlooxA

[era veteran]

66. Do Re Mi-- Woody Guthrie

Lots of Woody's songs, his guitar is my DU icon.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46mO7jx3JEw&feature=related

[livetohike]

67. Cumberland Blues - Grateful Dead

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3izzDufoGI&feature=related


I can't stay much longer, Melinda
The sun is getting high
I can't help you with your troubles
If you won't help with mine

I gotta get down
I gotta get down
Got to get down to the mine

You keep me up just one more night
I can't sleep here no more
Little Ben clock says quarter to eight
You kept me up till four

I gotta get down
I gotta get down
Or I can't work there no more

Lotta poor man make a five dollar bill
Keep him happy all the time
Some other fellow making nothing at all
And you can hear him cryin...

"Can I go buddy
Can I go down
Take your shift at the mine?"

Got to get down to the Cumberland mine
That's where I mainly spend my time
Make good money/five dollars a day
Made any more I might move away -

Lotta poor man got the Cumberland Blues
He can't win for losin
Lotta poor man got to walk the line
Just to pay his union dues

I don't know now
I just don't know
If I'm goin back again
I don't know now
I just don't know
If I'm goin back again

[livetohike]

68. Easy Wind - Grateful Dead

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nivOqZI5vXo&feature=related

I been balling a shiny black steel jack-hammer,
Been chippin up rocks for the great highway,
Live five years if I take my time,
Ballin that jack and a drinkin my wine.

I been chippin them rocks from dawn till doom,
While my rider hide my bottle in the other room.
Doctor say better stop ballin that jack,
If I live five years I gonna bust my back, yes I will.

Easy wind cross the bayou today
Cause theres a whole lotta women, mama,
Out in red on the streets today.
And the rivers keep a talkin,
But you never heard a word it said.

Gotta find a woman be good to me,
Wont hide my liquor try to serve me tea,
Cause Im a stone jack baller and my heart is true
And Ill give everything that I got to you, yes I will.

Easy wind going cross the bayou today
Theres a whole lotta women
Out in red on the streets today.
And the rivers keep a talkin,
But you never heard a word it said.

[Bennyboy]

69. Dirty Business

New Riders Of The Purple Sage http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJdq0OcRK3o

[RebelOne]

70. Delete. Some already posted this song. Didn't see it. n/t