Hi... I wish I could think of more that were sung as the work was done (all that come to mind are lullabies) but there is the Irish ballad THE SPINNING WHEEL, (the words and beat seem to follow the sound of the spinning wheel). Also on the Women's Song Circle, I posted the waitress song, MY MOTHER WAS A LADY. From a tattered old book of cowboy songs that has lost its cover and the first and last four pages, I have BLANCHE THE PRIDE OF THE RANCH. I don't know if that is in the DT. Haven't checked. It is more of a song about a cowgirl... her lover singing her praises, rather than from the point of view of the woman. There is also BROWN EYED LEE:

She talked to her friends and neighbors,
She said that she would fight.
She'd get her old six-shooter out
And put old Red to flight

This is a song about how brown-eyed Lee's mother has another man picked out for her to marry. Not quite a work song, but just surviving in the West and finding someone to marry was (and is still) hard work. If it's not in the DT I will post the lyrics.

I found this in an old book listed as a 17th century English Cradle Song. The tune is different than the Beatles, but you will recognize the words.

I WILL SING A LULLABY

Golden slumbers kiss your eyes
Smiles awake you when you rise.
Sleep pretty loved one, do not cry
And I will sing a lullaby.
Lullaby, lullaby, lullaby.

Care is heavy, therefore sleep,
Mother here safe watch will keep
Sleep pretty loved one, do not cry
And I will sing a lullaby.
Lullaby, lullaby, lullaby.

Alice in Montana

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