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Thread #3063   Message #14777
Posted By: Frank in the swamps
15-Oct-97 - 06:57 AM
Thread Name: Work Songs & Labor Movement
Subject: RE: Work Songs & Labor Movement
Gilbert Chase, in his book "America's Music" quotes a local rock band from Detroit who converted the Rolling Stones song "Miss You"

I work Buick all day long

Building car doors makes you strong

I'm a flintoid.

Then I go out for a ride

with my buddies by my side

We're all flintoids, yeah!

I knew a fella in upstate New York who was a writer for a newspaper, he wrote a song with the line...

Been punchin' at this keyboard 'till I think it's punchin' me.

I guess it'll never end, so long as somebody's tired of makin' 'bout a dollar a day.