"The Rackets We Had 'Round The Blue Mountain Lake"
---a fine humorous lumberjack work song from New York collected by Frank & Ann Warner

"Pokegama Bear"
as above but from Minnesota collected by John Berquist (and on my recent CD)

"The Black Fly Song"
by Wade Hemsworth---about a survey crew in northern Ontario harassed by these pests.

"The Frozen Logger"
a tall tale from the lumber camps with a tune. definition: great funny song of work

"Saginaw, Michigan"
from country singer Lefty Frizell---a funny love song from the Michigan fishing industry on the Great Lakes

"The Bitter Withy"
a humorous traditional ballad about the difficulties involved in being young in the occupation of Savior!

"The Boll Weevil"
a traditional American song about being homeless when working in the migratory textile harvesting business.

"The Union Maid"
by Woody Guthrie

"This Land Is Their Land":

This land is their land,
It is not our land,
From the plush apartments,
To the Cadillac car land,
From the Wall Street office,
To the Hollywood star land,
This land is not for you and me.

As I went walking that endless breadline...
My boss gave me a one week deadline,
And the Daily Worker ran a better headline,
This land is not for you and me.

So take your slogan and kindly stow it,
If this is our land we'll never know it,
Let's join together and overthrow it,
This land is not for you and me.

(This parody was from THE BOSSES SONG BOOK 1960s.

"The Ladies Auxiliary"
by Woody Guthrie

Oh, the ladies auxiliary is a good auxiliary,
It's the best auxiliary that you ever did see,
When you need an auxiliary see the ladies auxiliary,
It's the ladies---aux-ill-eye-ree.

"The Philadelphia Lawyer"
by Woody Guthrie

"Sally Don't You Grieve"
from Woody & the Almanac Singers. About going to war.

"Talkin' Dust Bowl Blues"
by Woody Guthrie )the hardships of farming and homelessness but with humor.

"Hobo's Lullaby"
by Goebel Reeves (The Texas Drifter) and usually, erroneously, attributed to Woody. Especially the verse about the police.

"When I Was a Cowboy"
from Leadbelly--pokes fun at the job of cowboying---especially movie cowboys (Gene Autry) who "made a million dollars a-pullin' on the bridle reigns"

"Drill, Ye Tarriers, Drill"
a very funny song from Irish workers building the first transcontinental railroad in the USA.

"In the Good Old Colony Days"
a song from the Revolutionary War about a weaver, a tailor and a miller and how they made their living. We go to K-Mart now for all we had to go to them to have done for us.

"The Fox"
a trad. song from the British Isles and taken all over the English speaking world about the difficulties of hunting & making a living for unappreciative kids who just yell for more!!!

"The Wreck of the Tennessee Gravy Train
a funny song about hard times from Uncle Dave Macon

"Click Go the Shears"
a humorous song about shearing from Australia.

"The Night They Drove Old Dickie Down"
a funny parody about how hard it was to be president (at least for Nixon).

"My Name Is Yon Yonson"
a song about the ambiguities of working in a lumber mill in Wisconsin.

"Pick a Bale o' Cotton"
from Leadbelly.

"Rock Island Line"
from Leadbelly

"No More Auction Block for Me"
a slave song -- USA-- speaks for itself. Talk about unfair employment!

"By the Hush"
a great Irish song collected in Canada by Edith Fowke about a man who emigrates to the U.S. to better his lot and finds himself in as bad a situation--if not worse--than he left at home---the American Civil War.

(read between the lines and many songs are work songs---some very funny.

"Pat Works on the Railway"
a funny song from the Irish railroad workers in the 1800

"The Bullhead Boat"
a funny song/sad commentary---life working on the Erie Canal---New York.

THERE ARE SO VERY MANY...

I do hope this helps---Art Thieme