Songs about Work
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Short version of rules
Without using a search engine to find one, write down at least eight words of a song containing the word (or the topic, if it's a general topic).
If it's the newest word, play once, and wait for another player to play before you go again.
On older words, you can play over and over without waiting!
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Working in a coal mine
Going down, down, down
(I have no idea...)
Workin' for a livin',
livin' and workin'
I'm taking what they givin'
'cause I'm working for a livin'...
---Huey Lewis
That ain't workin'
That's the way to do it
Get your money for nothin'
And your chicks for free...
Dire Straits
Take this job and shove it
I ain't working here no more
by Johnny Paycheck (I think)
Two hours of pushin' broom
Buys an eight- by-twelve four-bit room
Roger Miller, "King of the Road"
workin' nine to five what a way to make a livin'.
9 to 5
Dolly Parton
Her name was Lola
She was a show girl
Barry Manilow, "Copa Cabana"
You load 16 tons and what do you get?
another day older and deeper in debt.
16 Tons
And all this science I don't understand
It's just my job five days a week
A rocket man
Rocket man
Elton John/Bernie Taupin
I've been working on the railroad
All the livelong day
(Holly said that in a sing-along before a melodrama in Madrid NM there were some Brits there who didn't know the song at all. Madrid is the town they used in Wild Hogs, but it's not really a town of 500 with a sherriff and deputies. It's much smaller.)
I went to work for welfare in hopes to help the poor,
the staff showed me a desk and introduced me to the war,
they warned me that the battle started right outside the door,
and they fought it on The Paper Sea.
The Paper Sea - Leslie Fish
(also works for yesterday's word)
I ain't gonna work on Maggie's Farm no more
Bob Dylan
and the first quote on the first word of this game, in June!
http://lyricsgame.blogspot.com/2007/06/farm.html
Old McDonald had a farm, ei-ei-oh
And on that farm he had a duck, ei-ei-oh
Linnaea's contribution, with the statement that farming is work.
If I was a sculptor, but then again no
Or a man who makes potions in a travelling show
I know it's not much but it's the best I can do
My gift is my song and this one's for you
Your Song
Elton John/Bernie Taupin
Desmond has a barrow in the marketplace
Molly is a singer in the band
Beatles, "Obladi, Oblada"
Levon sells cartoon balloons in town
His family business thrives
Jesus blows up balloons all day
Sits on the porch swing watching them fly
Levon ~ Elton John
Cause I got those steadily depressin low down mind messin workin at the car wash blues
Jim Croce
Workin' at the car wash, girl
Come on and sing it with me
Car Wash ~ Rose Royce
I am an old cowpuncher
I punch them cows so hard
I have me a cow punching bag
Set up in my back yard...
John Roberts and Tony Barrand, Brits who live in New England, parodying in their most exaggerated Texas accents.
Anthony works in the grocery store
Saving his pennies for someday
and the second verse has
Sergeant O'Leary is walking the beat
At night he becomes a bartender
Moving Out - Anthony's Song
Billy Joel
Some built the roads
Some wrote the poems
Some went to war
Some never came home
Sons Of
Judy Collins
I'm going to pack my lunch in the morning
And go to work each day
And when the evening rolls around
I'll go on home and lay my body down
And when the morning light comes streaming in
I'll get up and do it again
The Pretender
Jackson Browne
Now the seats are all empty
Let the roadies take the stage
Pack it up and tear it down
They're the first to come and the last to leave
Workin for that minimum wage
They'll set it up in another town
The Load Out
Jackson Browne
Asking only workmans wages I come lookin for a job
But I get no offers
The Boxer
Simon and Garfunkel
Driven every kind of rig that's ever been made
Driven the back roads so I wouldn't get weighed
Willin'
Linda Ronstadt sings it in my head
Yeah the big boss man, he likes to crack that whip
I ain't nothing but a number on his timecard slip,
I give him 40 hours and a piece of my soul,
Puts me somewhere at the bottom of his totem pole,
Hell I don't even think he knows my name...
Get Drunk and Be Somebody~ Toby Keith
I'm for the low man on the totem pole
And I'm for the underdog god bless his soul
And I'm for the guys still pulling third shift
and the single mom raising her kids
Politcally Uncorrect~ Gretchen Wilson
And I need a job so I want to be a paperback writer
The Beatles
In Penny Lane the barber shaves another customer
The Beatles
A forty-year-old waitress
These words to me did say
I see that you're a logger
And not just a common bum
Cause nobody but a logger
Stirs his coffee with his thumb
Waitress AND a logger!
I went to the bank this morning
And the cashier said to me
If you join the Christmas club
We'll give you ten little flags for free...
John Prine, "Your Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Anymore"
Oh! Later in the same song,
"By the time they got a doctor there
I was already dead
And I'll never understand why the man
Standing at the Pearly Gates said...
But your flag decal won't get you into heaven anymore..."
(a doctor and a gatekeeping angel)
She was a level headed dancer
On the road to alcohol
And I was just a soldier
On my way to Montreal
Spanish Pipedream
John Prine
Hey there Delilah I know times are getting hard
But just believe me girl someday I'll pay the bills with this guitar
Plain White T's
He thinks dynamic tension
Must be hard work
8 words,
from Rocky Horror Picture Show,
"I can make you a man"
California, Arizona
We've picked all your crops.
It's on now to Oregon to gather your hops.
Dig the beets from the ground,
Pick the grapes from the vine,
To set on your table your bright, sparkling wine.
--"Pastures of Plenty" by Woody Guthrie
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