Y'all are saying old familiar musicology things and ignoring how unique this song is. Can you think of any workingman's song that has three entirely different tunes strung artfully together, as occurs in "I've Been Working..."

Also, what about Carmina Princetonia? Isn't that a strange name for a folk song collection? There must be a connection to Princeton and to an editor who was cultivated enough to use the term "Carmina" for a song collection.

I think the song was cobbled together to be used in a show at Princeton. The folk original probably stopped at "Dinah blow your horn."

Finally, that strange word "livelong" Have you ever heard it used anywhere else? I haven't. I suspect the unknown editor made it up to substitute for "goddamn" or some other unacceptable term.