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31 Aug 01 - 10:04 AM (#538897) Subject: Songs celebrating the working man/ woman From: Wesley S Labor day is coming up this Monday - what good songs do you know that sing the praises of working people ? Woody always comes to mind with "Pastures Of Plenty" and "Deportees". Merle Haggard had "The Working Man Blues". There are a lot more - what songs are you singing? Railroad songs ? Coal mining songs? Sea chanties? As a seperate rant, I don't plan to shop any of the stores that are open this holiday. I can't see having a holiday for working people and then keeping your store open. I'm so glad I don't work retail anymore. |
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31 Aug 01 - 10:16 AM (#538903) Subject: RE: Songs celebrating the working man/ woman From: IanC I've always liked Leon Rosselson's The World Turned Upside Down. Maybe because it's about local (East Anglian) heroes, maybe something else. I don't know. |
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31 Aug 01 - 10:33 AM (#538915) Subject: RE: Songs celebrating the working man/ woman From: mooman I like Elvis Costello's and Clive Langer's "Shipbuilding" as sung by Robert Wyatt although the song has a slightly wider significance also. mooman |
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31 Aug 01 - 10:58 AM (#538934) Subject: RE: Songs celebrating the working man/ woman From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler The DT has a @WORK subject category, it would pull up more than you could possibly need, I'd guess! RtS (This old hammer , it killed John Henry but it won't kill me) |
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31 Aug 01 - 11:01 AM (#538938) Subject: Lyr Add: SELL YOUR LABOUR NOT YOUR SOUL (B McNeill From: Susanne (skw) SELL YOUR LABOUR NOT YOUR SOUL (Brian McNeill) Chorus: Young and old, true and bold Sell your labour not your soul Solidarity's your goal - join the union Come and listen through the land, working woman, working man Young and old, true and bold - join the union Black, brown or white, get ready for the fight Young and old, true and bold - join the union Will you stand upon your rights or will you live upon your knees Doff your cap and look away while the bosses take their ease Unemployment is the fear the bosses whisper in your ear Young and old, true and bold - join the union Short term contract when they hire makes it easier to fire Young and old, true and bold - join the union More efficiency's the cry, technology's the game And every dividend you double - well your wages stay the same They say the unions' day is done and the country's moving on Young and old, true and bold - join the union Aye the government knows best, private sector does the rest Young and old, true and bold - join the union They'll privatise your hopes and they'll privatise your fears If they catch your children crying they'll privatise their tears We will rise, we will grow, we are stronger than we know Young and old, true and bold - join the union We will not be denied for we have right upon our side Young and old, true and bold - join the union So raise the banners high, let us all march behind Let Scotland be the first to draw the new union line |
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31 Aug 01 - 11:09 AM (#538945) Subject: RE: Songs celebrating the working man/ woman From: George Seto - af221@chebucto.ns.ca Plus there are many songs about a particular occupation. There are songs in the DT (either database or Forum) on Secretaries (Bosses' Lament) through to Archeologists, engineers and songs about unions (Let Union Be In All Our Hearts). I wonder if we should put together in here a list of songs for specific occupations, as well as songs about unions, etc. Hmmmm. |
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31 Aug 01 - 11:13 AM (#538947) Subject: RE: Songs celebrating the working man/ woman From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull I like Sipbuilding as well, Billy Conolly used to work in a shipyard, I think he sang it once but it might of been somebody else, I can't remember. |
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31 Aug 01 - 01:55 PM (#539071) Subject: RE: Songs celebrating the working man/ woman From: GUEST Tom Paxton (I think) did "I'm the man who built the bridges." Woodie did "The Greatest Thing That Man Has Ever Done." I think I've seen an arrangement on a recent thread where verses of that are alternated with verses of "I Was Born 100,000 Years Ago," which is close but not exactly. Utah Phillips: "Funeral Train" for miners; "Goodnight-Loving Trail" for camp cooks and cowboys in general. "Buckaroo Man" for cowboys--Dave Stamey, I think is how it's spelled. "End of Train Device" for railroaders. Gordon Lightfoot, "Canadian Railroad Trilogy," but that's too many railroad songs. Dolly Parton, "9 to 5" just to mention an obvious choice. "Jackhammer Blues" also Woodie. "Johnny Took His Fiddle" in a way applicable to musicians. [Out of genre, but "Sultans of Swing" for musicians.] I'll think of three more soon as I post. CC |
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31 Aug 01 - 02:28 PM (#539107) Subject: RE: Songs celebrating the working man/ woman From: Mark Clark My very favorite will always be The Song Of My Hands that I posted a while back for the DT. It hasn't made it to the DT yet but I have hopes that it may someday. - Mark |
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31 Aug 01 - 02:47 PM (#539126) Subject: RE: Songs celebrating the working man/ woman From: Jack the Sailor Hard Traveling by Woodie Guthrie!! Here's a verse about my job!
I've been doing some hard Programming. |
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30 Aug 02 - 03:48 PM (#774435) Subject: RE: Songs celebrating the working man/ woman From: GUEST Check out last year's Labour Day Song Challenge for tributes to all sorts of work. |
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30 Aug 02 - 04:29 PM (#774456) Subject: RE: Songs celebrating the working man/ woman From: Bo Vandenberg Have to mention "Ordinary Man" sung by Christy Moore. That song lives all around me. |
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30 Aug 02 - 07:48 PM (#774562) Subject: RE: Songs celebrating the working man/ woman From: michaelr Wesley -- You need this! Green Linnet in 1990 released a compilation called "Hard Cash", companion to a BBC TV series, of songs dealing with work and workers. It's an excellent collection. Here's the lowdown: Time to Ring some Changes (Richard Thompson) The Great Provider (Clive Gregson & Christine Collister) A Living Wage (Ron Kavana) Work Life out to keep Life in (Martin Carthy) You're the Pits (Dave Kelly) Odd Job Man (Jo Ann Kelly) Mrs Rita (June Tabor) Hilda's Cabinet Band (The Watersons) Force on the Workforce (Keith Hancock) The Jute Mill Song (June Tabor) Master and Servant (Dave Kelly & Hilary Fletcher) Oh I Swear (Richard Thompson) The Guernsey Kitchen Porter (Michael Marra) Good with my Hands (Clive Gregson & Christine Collister) A brilliant album! Cheers, Michael |
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31 Aug 02 - 01:45 PM (#774876) Subject: RE: Songs celebrating the working man/ woman From: Peg James Connolly Tired of Working Song of Choice
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31 Aug 02 - 04:32 PM (#774937) Subject: RE: Songs celebrating the working man/ woman From: cujimmy Patience Kershaw. a song about a young girl working in a coal mine in Halifax ( West Yorkshire ) in 1842 is very discriptive of the conditions children worked in ( Englands Little Slaves - Richard Ostler mp ) those times - well worth a listen. |
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31 Aug 02 - 06:29 PM (#774964) Subject: RE: Songs celebrating the working man/ woman From: Leadfingers The Frozen Logger |
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01 Sep 02 - 12:24 AM (#775055) Subject: RE: Songs celebrating the working man/ woman From: Galatians2:20 16 Tons (Tenessee Ernie Ford and others) Solidarity Forever (Seeger and others) There are bunches more, but those are 2 of my real favorites. Peace, 2:20
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01 Sep 02 - 11:03 AM (#775168) Subject: RE: Songs celebrating the working man/ woman From: Nigel Parsons Someone asked some time ago (but I didn't see an answer), Anyone got the words to the theme of the Charie Drake tv series "The Worker" ? Something along the lines of
Well I gets up in the morning when it's ---- O clock Also suitable, and always good for a laugh, Flanders & Swann's "The Gasman Cometh" Nigel |
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01 Sep 02 - 11:14 AM (#775174) Subject: RE: Songs celebrating the working man/ woman From: namedbard pete seeger used to sing a song by a farmer named Les Rice? called "the banks are made of marble" or John McCutcheons(he sang it anyway) "we shall rise" which is a wonderful working people, religious, revolutionary song. I am loooking for the chord pattern for it, desparately, thanks |
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24 May 03 - 12:37 AM (#958545) Subject: RE: Songs celebrating the working man/ woman From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull Between the Wars: Billy Bragg. King of Rome :June Tabor |
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24 May 03 - 01:52 AM (#958552) Subject: RE: Songs celebrating the working man/ woman From: DMcG Here's another couple of lines I remember from Charlie Drake's "The Worker" merged in with Nigels. Well I gets up in the morning when it's ---- O clock Strong as a heffalump, steady as a rock, With a nice cup of tea, a little round of toast, "The Sporting Life", and "The Winning Post", I gets all nice and tidy, then I toddles off to work, I do the best I can, Still I'm only doing what a bloke should do, 'Cos I'm only a working man. |
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24 May 03 - 03:45 AM (#958569) Subject: RE: Songs celebrating the working man/ woman From: Sarah the flute What about "we poor labouring men" english trad I think. Points out that often the indians have more value than the chiefs ( whoops sorry should that be little native americans have more value than the native americans in charge!!!) Whatever it's a good song. Havn't heard it for years. |
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24 May 03 - 08:35 AM (#958619) Subject: RE: Songs celebrating the working man/ woman From: George Seto - af221@chebucto.ns.ca Another song which deals with the working person, Rita MacNeil's Working Man |
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24 May 03 - 09:22 AM (#958627) Subject: RE: Songs celebrating the working man/ woman From: Alba Millworker by James Taylor. "...and it's me and my machine for the rest of the morning, and the rest of the afternoon and the rest of my Life." |