LABOR DAY TRIBUTE! great songs about the working life......

[Bennyboy]

This one is for the miners in Utah and their families....

DIRTY BUSINESS
(JOHN DAWSON)

WELL THE MARSHALL CAME TO TOWN
AND HIS HAT WAS PULLED WAY DOWN
HE LOOKED LIKE HE HAD BUSINESS ON HIS MIND
HE DIDN’T STOP TO SAY
HE JUST RODE ALONG HIS WAY
‘TIL HE STOPPED IN AT THE OFFICE OF THE MINE

CHORUS:
DIRTY BUSINESS, DIRTY BUSINESS
DIRTY BUSINESS DOWN IN COAL CREEK
DIRTY BUSINESS DOWN IN COAL CREEK
THIS MORNING

WELL, I MAKE TWO BUCKS A DAY
AND THAT AIN’T A HEALTHY PAY
MY KIDS ARE JUST BEGINNING TO GET SICK
THERE’S TALK BEEN GOIN’ ROUND
HOW THEY’RE GONNA SHUT IT DOWN
IF THE MAN DON’T COME AND FIX THINGS
PRETTY QUICK

REPEAT CHORUS

PRETTY SOON THERE WAS A CROWD
IT WAS GETTING’ PRETTY LOUD
AND THE MEN ALL SAID THERE’D BE NO WORK TODAY
BUT THE OWNER WOULDN’T BUDGE
HE JUST SAT THERE LIKE A JUDGE
AND HE WOULDN’T GIVE A NICKEL MORE IN PAY

CHORUS:
DIRTY BUSINESS, DIRTY BUSINESS
DIRTY BUSINESS DOWN IN COAL CREEK
DIRTY BUSINESS DOWN IN COAL CREEK
THIS MORNING

JUST THEN THEY HEARD THE SOUND
THAT RUMBLED FROM THE GROUND
AND EVERYONE WAS RUSHING FOR THE DOOR
THE DUST CAME POURING OUT
AND IT FINALLY LEFT NO DOUBT
THAT THE MINE WAS NOT AT ISSUE ANYMORE

[GirlinContempt]

1. Devo!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=f8faSkEAeq0
Well I been workin in a coal mine
Goin down down
Workin in a coal mine
Whew about to slip down
Five oclock in the mornin
Im up before the sun
When my work day is over
Im too tired for havin fun
Lord I am so tired
How long can this go on
I been workin goin workin
Whew about to slip down

[RevolutionaryActs]

20. That was the first song I thought of too!

:o

[Midlodemocrat]

30. Me, too.

:hi:

[GirlinContempt]

31. We're just three peas in a pod

[GirlinContempt]

2. DOA

This is a song about power,
the power that you and I have in our hands.
The power of the people.
`Cause you know all over this world,
people finally get it together,
get the courage together,
they use the general strike.
It's one of the strongest things they got.
In Eastern Europe, Central America, in North America,
believe it or not,
cause it's power to the people.
Come on!

We're tired, yeah tired of working'
We're tired of working, yeah working for nothing
We all want, what we got coming
All we need is a break
Come on, make no mistake

Everything is not all right
And there's no end in sight
You can call it what you like
Come on, stand up for your rights

(Chorus)
Stand up, stand and unite
It's time for a general strike
Stand up, stand and unite
It's time for a general strike

We been out breaking our backs
Been out working, getting no slack
All week long just paying those bills
That's just the people that still got a job
What about the rest of us - on the soupline

(Chorus)
Stand up, stand and unite
It's time for a general strike
Stand up, stand and unite
It's time for a general strike

Everything is not all right
And there's no end in sight
You can call it wht you like
Come on stand up for your rights

(Chorus)
Stand up, stand and unite
It's time for a general strike
Stand up, stand and unite
It's time for a general strike

[Bennyboy]

3. Joan Baez...Joe Hill

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR6SMAJQW8Y

[GirlinContempt]

4. L'Internationale

http://youtube.com/watch?v=lk9wqNXH6AY
Debout les damnés de la terre
Debout les forçats de la faim
La raison tonne en son cratère
C'est l'éruption de la fin
Du passe faisons table rase
Foules, esclaves, debout, debout
Le monde va changer de base
Nous ne sommes rien, soyons tout

C'est la lutte finale
Groupons-nous, et demain (bis)
L'Internationale
Sera le genre humain

Il n'est pas de sauveurs suprêmes
Ni Dieu, ni César, ni tribun
Producteurs, sauvons-nous nous-mêmes
Décrétons le salut commun
Pour que le voleur rende gorge
Pour tirer l'esprit du cachot
Soufflons nous-mêmes notre forge
Battons le fer quand il est chaud

L'état comprime et la loi triche
L'impôt saigne le malheureux
Nul devoir ne s'impose au riche
Le droit du pauvre est un mot creux
C'est assez, languir en tutelle
L'égalité veut d'autres lois
Pas de droits sans devoirs dit-elle
Egaux, pas de devoirs sans droits

Hideux dans leur apothéose
Les rois de la mine et du rail
Ont-ils jamais fait autre chose
Que dévaliser le travail
Dans les coffres-forts de la bande
Ce qu'il a crée s'est fondu
En décrétant qu'on le lui rende
Le peuple ne veut que son dû.

Les rois nous saoulaient de fumées
Paix entre nous, guerre aux tyrans
Appliquons la grève aux armées
Crosse en l'air, et rompons les rangs
S'ils s'obstinent, ces cannibales
A faire de nous des héros
Ils sauront bientôt que nos balles
Sont pour nos propres généraux

Ouvriers, paysans, nous sommes
Le grand parti des travailleurs
La terre n'appartient qu'aux hommes
L'oisif ira loger ailleurs
Combien, de nos chairs se repaissent
Mais si les corbeaux, les vautours
Un de ces matins disparaissent
Le soleil brillera toujours.

[two gun sid]

5. Woody Guthrie's 'Waiting At The Gate"...

Tell the miners' kids and wives,
There's a blast in the number five.
And the families I see standing at the gate.
The inspector years ago said number five's a deadly hole,
And the men most likely won't come out alive.

Waiting at the gate, we are waiting at the gate.
Smoke and fire just roll and boil from that dark and deadly hole,
While the miners' kids and wives wait at the gate.

The inspector told the boss, it was more than a year ago,
You're risking these men's lives in number five.
That hole's full of fumes and dust, full of high explosive gas,
But the boss said we'll just have to take the chance.

Waiting at the gate, we are waiting at the gate.
Smoke and fire just roll and boil from that dark and deadly hole,
While the miners' kids and wives wait at the gate.

Well the men in the number five kissed their wives and kids goodbye,
Then they walk with their lunch kits up the hill.
Everybody told the owner that this deadly day would come,
But he said we had to work to pay our bills.

Waiting at the gate, we are waiting at the gate.
Smoke and fire just roll and boil from that dark and deadly hole,
While the miners' kids and wives wait at the gate.

Well I tried to get a look of the face I often know,
As the men are carried out wrapped up in sheets.
I can hear the church bells ringing for the one hundred eleven dead,
I can hear the families weeping in the streets.

Waiting at the gate, we are waiting at the gate.
Smoke and fire just roll and boil from that dark and deadly hole,
While the miners' kids and wives wait at the gate.

This explosion struck on Wednesday,
and I stood by the gate till Saturday,
Till they laid my daddy out with the other men.
In the pocket of his shirt I found a little note he wrote,
Never go down in a dangerous mine again.

Waiting at the gate, we are waiting at the gate.
Smoke and fire just roll and boil from that dark and deadly hole,
While the miners' kids and wives wait at the gate.

As the grandson of a proud UMWA miner, I offer my condolences to the families and friends of the Utah miners, sacrificed for greed. Let us all work to see that this never happens again. We need to rebuild our Unions and take control of our own destinies. Solidarity Forever.

[Joe Fields]

6. 'Working Man,' by Rush

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlGFxzA5q2Q

[Bennyboy]

7. Pumpin for the man...WEEN

Pumpin' 4 The Man by Ween:

It's a nine mile walk from the office to the pumps
Sometimes you think you're gonna drop
In the end you're filthy dirty, horny, and pissed off
And before you can leave you gotta sweep the fuckin' shop

It's a real real bitch to be workin' for the man
But shit, I do it well, so what the fuck
I could probably wash dishes at some other fuckin' dump
But it's all the same to me, bustin' ass to make a buck

So read 'em up and stick 'em
Pump that fucker good
Some woman down on Main Street needs a jump
Get your fingers outta your ass
And pump some faggot's gas
And think about how bad New Hope sucks

And it's a piss poor life when the ladies fire you up
And then you check their oil and know you're fucked
'Cause no one wants a loser who works for 5 an hour
Smells like gas, looks like shit, works in the rain and rude as hell

Now I can fix a tire like Hurricane Melinda
I know that I'm the best for what it's worth
So if I choose to help you don't look like you expect it
'Cause it's a gift that God gave me at birth

So read 'em up and stick 'em
Pump that fucker good
Some woman down on Main Street needs a jump
Get your fingers outta your ass
And pump some faggot's gas
And think about how bad New Hope sucks, woohoo!

[Bennyboy]

8. Dire Straits...Industrial Disease....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlAPDQdHqCY

[Bennyboy]

9. Another great mining song....

Another great mining song, "coalminers" by Uncle Tupelo

I was born in old Kentucky
In a coal camp, born and bred
I know about old beans
Bulldog gravy and cornbread
I know how the miners work and slave
In the coalmines every day
For a dollar in the company store
For that is all they pay

Mining is the most dangerous work
In our land today
Plenty of dirty, slaving work
For very little pay
Coalminers, won't you wake up
And open your eyes and see
What this dirty capitalist system
Has done to you and me

Dear miners, they will slave you
Until you can't work no more
And what will you get for your labor
But a dollar in the company store
A tumbledown shack to live in
Snow and rain pouring through the top
And you have to pay the company rent
And your payments will never stop

They take our very lifeblood
They take our children's lives
Take fathers away from children
Take husbands away from wives
Coalminers, won't you organize
Wherever you may be
And make this a land of freedom
For workers, like you and me

I am a coalminer
And I'm sure I wish you well
Let's sink this capitalist system
To the darkest pits of hell

[skygazer]

10. Take This Job and Shove It

I don't suppose it qualifies as a "great" song but unfortunately its about how I feel right now. :shrug:

[Fox Mulder]

15. Same here.

[triguy46]

35. Let's rasie our glass to Johnny Paycheck, best working song ever.

[two gun sid]

11. A song I heard when I was a kid...

I don't know the name of it but, it was sung at the graveside at a Miner's funeral:

The Miner is gone
We'll see him no more
God be with the Miner wherever he goes
And may he be ready
Thy call to obey
And looking for Jesus
The only true way.

In memory of our old neighbors, The Campbells, who lost family at the Hominy Falls mine disaster.

[WinkyDink]

12. In honor of my father, WWII vet, coal-miner, and worker at Bethlehem Steel:

Well we're living here in Allentown
And they're closing all the factories down
Out in Bethlehem they're killing time
Filling out forms
Standing in line.

Well our fathers fought the Second World War
Spent their weekends on the Jersey Shore
Met our mothers at the USO
Asked them to dance
Danced with them slow
And we're living here in Allentown.

But the restlessness was handed down
And it's getting very hard to staaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay
aaaaaaah aaahhhhh ooooooooh ooooooh ohhhhhhh.

Well we're waiting here in Allentown
For the Pennsylvania we never found
For the promises our teachers gave
If we worked hard
If we behaved.

So the graduations hang on the wall
But they never really helped us at all
No they never taught us what was real
Iron and coke,
Chromium steel.

And we're waiting here in Allentown.
But they've taken all the coal from the ground
And the union people crawled awaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah aaaaaaaaaaah aaaaaah.

Every child had a pretty good shot
To get at least as far as their old man got.
Something happened on the way to that place
They threw an American flag in our faaaaaaaace, oh oh oh.

Well I'm living here in Allentown
And it's hard to keep a good man down.
But I won't be getting up todaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyy
aaaaaaaaaaah aaaaaaaaaaah aaaaaaaaah.

GUITAR SOLO

aaaaaaah aaaaaaah aaaaaaah oh oh oh.

And it's getting very hard to staaaaaaaaaaaaaay.

And we're living here in Allentown.



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[Zomby Woof]

13. Don't Look Now (It Ain't You Or Me)

from CCR:

Who will take the coal from the mine?
Who will take the salt from the earth?
Who'll take a leaf and grow it to a tree?
Don't look now, it ain't you or me.

Who will work the field with his hands?
Who will put his back to the plough?
Who'll take the mountain and give it to the sea?
Don't look now, it ain't you or me.

Don't look now, someone's done your starvin';
Don't look now, someone's done your prayin' too.

Who will make the shoes for your feet?
Who will make the clothes that you wear?
Who'll take the promise that you don't have to keep?
Don't look now, it ain't you or me.

Who will take the coal from the mines?
Who will take the salt from the earth?
Who'll take the promise that you don't have to keep?
Don't look now, it ain't you or me.

--- John Fogerty

[Zomby Woof]

14. Makin' Thunderbirds

The big line moved one mile an hour
So loud it really hurt
The big line moved so loud
It really hurt
Back in '55
We were makin' thunderbirds

We filled conveyors
We met production
Foremen didn't waste words
We met production
Foremen didn't waste words
We were young and proud
We were makin' thunderbirds

We were makin' thunderbirds
We were makin' thunderbirds
They were long and low and sleek and fast
They were all you ever heard
Back in '55
We were makin' thunderbirds

Now the years have flown and the plants have changed
And you're lucky if you work
The big line moves but you're lucky if you work
Back in '55
We were makin' thunderbirds

We were makin' thunderbirds
We were makin' thunderbirds
They were long and low and sleek and fast
They were classic in a word
Back in '55
We were makin' thunderbirds
We were young and proud
We were makin' thunderbirds
We were young and sure
We were makin' thunderbirds

--- Bob Seger

[philosophie_en_rose]

16. The Picket Line Song - Evan Greer

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=4813127 (click the fourth song on the list)

oh i would never walk across a picket line
solidarity forever don't mean just sometimes
so long live the union!
cross my heart and hope to die
if I should ever walk across a picket line

well my mother never told me what was right or what was wrong
she never taught me to play guitar never taught me to write songs
but one thing that she taught me i'll remember for all time
and that's that you should never walk across a picket line

oh i would never walk across a picket line
solidarity forever don't mean just sometimes
so long live the union!
cross my heart and hope to die
if I should ever walk across a picket line

she took me to a factory where the workers were on strike
the company had called in scabs to break the union's might
my mum went to the front and addressed those greedy swine
sayin' “i dare any of you men to walk across this picket line!”

oh i would never walk across a picket line
solidarity forever don't mean just sometimes
so long live the union!
cross my heart and hope to die
if I should ever walk across a picket line

well one of them came forward and he had something to say:
“no woman will stand between me and one day's pay!
i don't care 'bout the others i am taking what is mine”
and with that he tried to walk across our picket line

mom called him a dirty scab, gave him two pieces of her mind
she picked up and she threw every rock that she could find
and when he called the cops on her she kicked his behind
sayin' “that's what you get when you walk across a union's picket line!”

oh i would never walk across a picket line
solidarity forever don't mean just sometimes
so long live the union!
cross my heart and hope to die
if I should ever walk across a picket line

well to this day i can remember what my momma used to say:
“we're fighting for a better world, not just for better pay
and if we stick together then we'll win this fight in time
so long as we don't walk across each other's picket lines”

oh i would never walk across a picket line
solidarity forever don't mean just sometimes
so long live the union!
cross my heart and hope to die
if I should ever walk across a picket line
if I should ever walk across a picket line

[EstimatedProphet]

17. Grateful Dead - Cumberland Blues

Gotta get down to the Cumberland Mine
That's where I mainly spend my time
Make good money - 5 dollars a day
Make any more I might move away

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dodsdVCE1RA

[GirlinContempt]

18. Propagandhi - Rio De San Atlanta, Manitoba

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ifriuFb-Xjk
Our cities seem to function quite the same: sweeping ghettos under one big rug makes them easier to contain, so the upper-middle class can sleep (or shop in peace) and convince themselves that ";trickle-down"; will solve this poverty. Yes, murderers walk our streets and their weapons are their pens, desks, policies and P.R. campaigns (fed by the spoils of war) against the ";lazy, shiftless"; populations of the poor. This system cannot be reformed... (so how about we try something different?)

[BOSSHOG]

19. MA - Rare Earth

[GirlinContempt]

21. Propagandhi - ...and we thought nation states were a bad idea

publicly subsidized! privately profitable!
that's the anthem of the upper-tier the puppeteer untouchable
focus a moment, nod in approval and bury our head back in the bar-codes of these neo-colonials
while our former nemesis ah, the romance of the nation-state,
now plays fund-raiser for a new brand of power-concentrate.
try again, but now we're confused- what is "class war"? Is this "class war"? Yes this is "class war".
and i'm just a kid- i can't believe that i gotta worry about this kind of shit!
what a stupid world! yeah, this is just beautiful...
No regard for principle. what a stupid world.
we're 1) born 2) hired 3) disposed! where that job lands, everybody knows and you can tell by the smile on the ceo's that the environmental restraints about to go.
you can bet that laws will be set to ensure the benefit of unrestricted labor-laws kept in place by displaced government death squads
they own us. they produce us. consume us
can you fucking believe this? what a stupid world.
fuck this bullshit display of class-loyalties.
the media and "our" leaders wrap it all up in a flag- their fucking shit-rag. hooray!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=bd2yw4DCtbA

[EstimatedProphet]

22. Styx - Blue Collar Man

Give me a job, give me security
Give me a chance to survive
I'm just a poor soul in the unemployment line
My God I'm hardly alive
My mother and father, my wife and friends
I see them laugh in my face
But I've got the power and I've got the will
I'm not a charity case

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhmdufirH54

[ghostsofgiants]

23. "Playing It Extra" by The Lost Patrol

Working from 9-5 and I tell myself, "Don't wanna die"
Struck in the routine I'm living in past or future, never the present time
I wake up, I get up, I shave and I tell myself, "It'll be O.K. someday"
I get out, it is cold and I'm scared that I'll never gonna make it out of here

I see you
I feel you
I see you
Cause I feel the same way too

Working from 9-5 and think it just like doing time
I hate to take orders, to feel like a slave but they told me, "this is the only way"
Out there and in here I feel so alone, move on, move along or be left on your own
I work here, I live here, I die here I know, so many times they told me so

I see you
I feel you
I see you
Cause I feel the same way too

What about everything that we talked about?
What about all the plans that we made?
What about the dreams that we had?
What about living this way?

I don't know the word reification but I feel exactly what it means
Cos it seems that the importance of commodities so much bigger than me
So I buy it, it buy me and then I'm sold, worth nothing or at least so I'm told
I eat it, it eats me, it swallow me whole, everything's so out of control

I see you
I feel you
I see you
Cause I feel the same way too
Cause I feel the same way too
Cause I feel the same way too
Cause I feel the same way too

[GirlinContempt]

24. Propagandhi - Resisting Tyrannical Government

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Q1y3AMzh7nw&mode=related&search=

Why don't we all strap bombs to our chests
and ride our bikes to the next G-7 picnic?
It seems easier with every clock tick.
But whose will would that represent?
Mine? Yours? The rank-and-file's? Or better yet: the Government's?
But I don't want to catalyze or synthesize the second Final Solution.
I don't want to be the Steve Smith of the Revolution.
Do you see the analogy? We're the Oilers. The World Bank- the Flames! And just 2 minutes remain in the 7th game of the best of 7 series!
Yeah, Jesus saves! Gretzky scores! The workers slave. The rich get more.
One wrong move and we risk the cup. So play The Man, not the puck.
Why don't we plant a mechanic virus and erase the memory of the machines that maintain this capitalist dynasty?
And yes, I recognize the irony that the very system I oppose affords me the luxury of biting the hand that feeds.
But that's exactly why privileged fucks like me should feel obliged to whine and kick and scream
until everyone has everything they need.

[Bennyboy]

25. John Lennon....

A Working Class Hero Is Somethng To Be http://youtube.com/watch?v=zZ89B1WUzVM

[Jade Fox]

26. She Works Hard For the Money-Donna Summer

http://youtube.com/watch?v=V81y732eavg

[GirlinContempt]

27. The Faint - Agenda Suicide

http://youtube.com/watch?v=T-NbXGjXT4Q

you could follow logic
or contest it all
the work solution makes the common house a home

the element of progress
that you mention is gone
it de-evolved to something you were headed toward

as i lay to die the things i think
did i waste my time, i think i did- i worked for life

all we want are just pretty little homes
our work makes pretty little homes

like a cast shadow
like a fathers dream
have a cut out son
what's a worse disease
to get that pretty little home

as i lay to die the things i think
i don't want to regret what i did- and work for life

all we want are just pretty little homes
our work makes pretty little homes
agenda suicide, the drones work hard before they die
and give up on pretty little homes

(like a cast shadow)
our work makes pretty little homes
our work makes pretty little homes
agenda suicide, the drones work hard before they die
and give up on pretty little homes

[GirlinContempt]

28. The International Noise Conspiracy - Capitalism Stole My Virginity

http://youtube.com/watch?v=cVzaqKahntQ

Nowhere is untouched by the shame
Who said we could get by with our childhood games
Days of innocence are all long gone
Avoid the shock honey and try to live on

Woke up all paralyzed
All dreams corrupted in front of our eyes
Cause on every forehead of every little whore
There's a sign that says, 'baby don't come back no more'

Distasteful ugly and cheap
That is how you make me feel, I said
Capitalism stole my virginity
Capitalism stole, capitalism stole
Capitalism stole my virginity

Robbed out of our bleeding hearts
Smashed our illusions, tore them all apart
Now we are unsentimental and unafraid
To destroy this culture that we hate

Sort of tired of being nothing
When, when we should be everything
On every forehead of every little whore
There's a sign that says, 'baby we're all born to die'

Distasteful ugly and cheap
That is how you make me feel, I said
Capitalism stole my virginity
Capitalism stole, capitalism stole
Capitalism stole - yeah

We are all sluts, cheap products
In someone else's notebook
We are all sluts, cheap products
In someone else's notebook
We are all sluts, cheap products
In someone else's notebook
We are all sluts, cheap products
In someone else's notebook

Distasteful ugly and cheap
That is how you make me feel, I said
Capitalism stole my virginity
Capitalism stole, capitalism stole
Capitalism stole my virginity, oh
Capitalism stole, capitalism stole
Capitalism stole my virginity, oh yeah
Capitalism stole, capitalism stole
Capitalism stole my virginity, oh

[ghostsofgiants]

36. I love T(I)NC.

[GirlinContempt]

37. I know you do

And, Dennis Lyxzen looks smoking hot in those tight pants.

[Silver Swan]

29. Solidarity Forever--and it's fun to sing!

(The tune is the same as Battle Hymn of the Republic.)

When the Union's inspiration through the workers' blood shall run,
There can be no power greater anywhere beneath the sun.
Yet what force on earth is weaker than the feeble strength of one?
But the Union makes us strong.

Solidarity forever!
Solidarity forever!
Solidarity forever!
For the Union makes us strong.

Is there aught we hold in common with the greedy parasite
Who would lash us into serfdom and would crush us with his might?
Is there anything left to us but to organize and fight?
For the Union makes us strong.


It is we who plowed the prairies; built the cities where they trade;
Dug the mines and built the workshops; endless miles of railroad laid.
Now we stand outcast and starving, 'midst the wonders we have made;
But the Union makes us strong.


All the world that's owned by idle drones is ours and ours alone.
We have laid the wide foundations; built it skyward stone by stone.
It is ours, not to slave in, but to master and to own,
While the Union makes us strong.



They have taken untold millions that they never toiled to earn,
But without our brain and muscle not a single wheel can turn.
We can break their haughty power; gain our freedom when we learn
That the Union makes us strong.


In our hands is placed a power greater than their hoarded gold;
Greater than the might of armies, magnified a thousand-fold.
We can bring to birth a new world from the ashes of the old.
For the Union makes us strong.

[GirlinContempt]

32. Propagandi - State Lottery

http://youtube.com/watch?v=C2tm5AG5vWQ

Does it seem strange to you? The confetti. The balloons. The mile-wide grins and the victory dance to welcome in the heir to a state of (utter and complete) disrepair? Because it sure seems strange to me: they're acting like they won the fucking lottery! I mean, shouldn't they feel terror at the task that lies ahead: to feed and house the people that this system's left for dead. And could I have hit the nail much harder on the head? It's profits before lives. They are motivated by greed. First they taught us to depend on their nation-states to mend our tired minds, our broken bones, our bleeding limbs.
But now they've sold off all the splints and contracted out the tourniquets and if we jump through hoops then we might just survive. Is this what we deserve? To scrub the palace floors? To fight amongst ourselves? As we scramble for the crumbs they spit out, frothing at the mouth about the scapegoats that they've chosen for us. With every racist pointed finger I can hear the goose-steps getting closer. They no longer represent us so is it not our obligation to confront this tyranny?

[GirlinContempt]

38. International Noise Conspiracy - Smash It Up

http://youtube.com/watch?v=syJ-aE6JF5E

i want to smash it up for all the workers who spent hours into nothing
i want to smash it up for all my sisters who got caught up in this funky system
i want to smash it up just like a locust, like a satellite shooting rockets
i want to smash it up in every way I can, right now I think I want to be your man
smash it up yeah, when i'm down
i want to smash it up for all the kids who, who got fucked up just like their parents did
i want to smash it up, the gods and masters who made us die so much faster
yeah yeah, you know i wanna smash it up
yeah yeah, you know we gotta smash it up
yeah yeah, common pretty smash it up
everybody right now, common everyone
smash it up yeah, when i'm down
i want to smash it up for all the people and for our right to be, to be treated equal
i want to smash it up for all my friends, i hope you stick around until the very end
yeah yeah, you know i wanna smash it up
yeah yeah, you know we gotta smash it up
yeah yeah, everybody wants to smash it up
common everyone right now, yeah
smash it up yeah, when i'm down, yeah
i wanna smash it up

[Bennyboy]

33. THE OFFICE

and Huey Lewis http://youtube.com/watch?v=UI8Sy7gSCHE Workin' For A livin'

[Bennyboy]

34. Working 9 to 5

Dolly Parton http://youtube.com/watch?v=mpKAA2VxWY8

[Bennyboy]

39. And Bruce has a few....

Friday night's pay night, guys fresh out of work
Talking about the weekend, scrubbing off the dirt
Some heading home to their families, some looking to get hurt
Some going down to Stovell wearing trouble on their shirts
I work for the county out on 95
All day I hold a red flag and watch the traffic pass me by
In my head I keep a picture of a pretty little miss
Someday, mister, I'm gonna lead a better life than this

(CHORUS) Working on the highway, laying down the blacktop
Working on the highway, all day long I don't stop
Working on the highway, blasting through the bedrock
Working on the highway, working on the highway

I met her at a dance down at the union hall
She was standing with her brothers, back up against the wall
Sometimes we'd go walking down the union tracks
One day I looked straight at her and she looked straight back
So I'm...

(REPEAT CHORUS)

I saved up my money and I put it all away
I went to see her daddy but we didn't have much to say
"Son, can't you see that she's just a little girl
She don't know nothing about this cruel, cruel world"
We lit out down to Florida, we got along all right
One day her brothers came and got her and they took me in a black-and-white
The prosecutor kept the promise that he made on that day
And the judge got mad and he put me straight away
I wake up every morning to the work bell clang
Me and the warden go swinging on the Charlotte County road gang
I'm...

(REPEAT CHORUS TWICE)

[opiate69]

40. Jethro tull - "Steel Monkey"

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Pj7iuECmR5M

[HuskerDU]

41. This Ain't No Picnic!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OP-FuJQyN20

[Bennyboy]

42. Bruce Springsteen..Youngstown

acoustic http://youtube.com/watch?v=Smddcs5n0H0

[Bennyboy]

43. And the ELECTRIC VERSION

Youngstown http://youtube.com/watch?v=c2rQ3_kSXoU&mode=related&search=

[mitchum]

44. "Birth School Work Death" The Godfathers

[Bennyboy]

45. I Ain't Gonna Work On maggies Farm No More Grateful Dead version...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSYmgkHrmJg

[ghostsofgiants]

46. Some Against Me! might fight the bill...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btX5UMLgtGw