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I will start with Maggie's Farm:
http://www.eyeneer.com/video/rock/bob-dylan/maggies-farmlike-a-rolling-stone
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Songs about jobs that suck (Original Post)
Danmel
Aug 2014
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Coventina
(27,063 posts)1. Not sure if this totally fits, but was first song that popped into my mind
SwankyXomb
(2,030 posts)2. Not the most popular version, but as done by the writer
clarice
(5,504 posts)3. I don't wanna work..I just wanna bang on the truck all day. nt
clarice
(5,504 posts)4. Sam Cooke....Chain Gang. nt
bluesbassman
(19,361 posts)5. Cumberland Blues - Grateful Dead
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)6. Workin' in a coal mine, goin' down, down, down
CBGLuthier
(12,723 posts)7. 16 Tons
ReverendDeuce
(1,643 posts)8. I came here specifically to post that...
Love this tune!
Avalux
(35,015 posts)9. Coalminers
Uncle Tupelo:
Boom Sound 416
(4,185 posts)10. A classic
SwankyXomb
(2,030 posts)11. Pretty much any song about mining will fit, I think
antiquie
(4,299 posts)12. Railworkers, too.
Doc Watson
My Good Babushka
(2,710 posts)13. Minimum Wage TMBG
redwitch
(14,941 posts)14. The Pound a Week Rise
Brigid
(17,621 posts)15. What, nobody beat me to this one?
ms liberty
(8,558 posts)17. Minimum Wage by The Bus Boys...n/t
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)18. I love "Car Wash" by Rose Royce.
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)19. A classic: "Chain Gang" by Sam Cooke
Coventina
(27,063 posts)20. Because no thread is complete without Weird Al
Doc_Technical
(3,521 posts)21. The Dirty Jobs
Wounded Bear
(58,603 posts)22. Working Man...
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)23. Matthew and Son
SkatmanRoth
(843 posts)24. Wreck of the Edmunds Fitzgerald
A real dead end job.
No chance to rise to the top.
jmowreader
(50,529 posts)25. Any Harry Chapin song about work
Bosonic
(3,746 posts)26. Working This Job/This Fucking Job - Drive-By Truckers
KG
(28,751 posts)27. "Joe Hill's Ashes"