OT: Working Songs

[jimazee]

I couldn't select the "better" of the two here. This is the chant about men who labored and pulled the barges on the great Volga River...sung by the Red Army Choir...over 50 years ago..featuring Leonid Kharitonov.

"Song of the Volga Boatmen" - Leonid Kharitonov & The Red Army Choir (Live)

Leonid Kharitonov & The Alexandrov Red Army Choir perform the Russian folk song "Song of the Volga Boatmen" ("Yo, Heave Ho!", "Ej, Uhnem!"), the conductor i...

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[TerpWomenFan]

Happy 40th anniversary New Edition. Just love these guys.

 

[tomcat]

Something a little different, from Neil Young:

 

[Monte]

 

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[Kat]

 

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[64Zcode]

Jackson Browne - The Pretender
A lot to think about in this song. Well written (and performed) by Mr Browne.

Gonna pack my lunch in the morning
And go to work each day
And when the evening rolls around
I'll go on home and lay my body down
And when the morning light comes streaming in
I'll get up and do it again.

 

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[64Zcode]

Thought about all the truck driving songs available but passed on those in favor of some live Bruce.
Working' On The Highway

 

[Monte]

 

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[FairView]

64Zcode's mention of trucking songs made this song pop into my mind -- embarrassedly so.
Does this count for the topic?

 

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[luvgiraf]

Another from the late, great Jimmy Buffett.

 

[Boreifs]

I couldn't select the "better" of the two here. This is the chant about men who labored and pulled the barges on the great Volga River...sung by the Red Army Choir...over 50 years ago..featuring Leonid Kharitonov.

"Song of the Volga Boatmen" - Leonid Kharitonov & The Red Army Choir (Live)

Leonid Kharitonov & The Alexandrov Red Army Choir perform the Russian folk song "Song of the Volga Boatmen" ("Yo, Heave Ho!", "Ej, Uhnem!"), the conductor i...

www.youtube.com

Here is Paul Robeson’s version

The Volga Boatmen - sung by Paul Robeson

A famous russian song sung by Paul Robeson . The painting belongs to the russian painter Ilya Repin.

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[TerpWomenFan]

Remake of the Isley Brothers song.

 

[Bigboote]

Fear a bhata means the Boatman in Gaelic. Here’s my favorite rendition, from California hammered dulcimer player Kate Price:

 

[Jackcatscal]

Can I go, buddy, can I go down
Take your shift at the mine
Gotta get down to the Cumberland mine
Gotta get down to the Cumberland mine
That's where I mainly spend my time
Make good money, five dollars a day
If I made any more I might move away
Lotta poor man got the Cumberland Blues
He can't win for losing
Lotta poor man got to walk the line
Just to pay his union dues

 

[Jackcatscal]

From Les Miz...

Master of the house, keeper of the zoo
Ready to relieve 'em of a sou or two
Watering the wine, making up the weight
Pickin' up their knick-knacks when they can't see straight
Everybody loves a landlord
Everybody's bosom friend
I do whatever pleases
Jesus! Won't I bleed 'em in the end!

 

[Jackcatscal]

From Threepenny Opera...

You gentlemen can watch while I'm scrubbin' the floors
And I'm scrubbin' the floors while you're gawkin'
And maybe once you tip me and it makes you feel swell
On a ratty waterfront in a ratty old hotel
And you never guess to who you're talkin'
You never guess to who you are talkin'
Suddenly one night, there's a scream in the night
And you wonder, "What could that a-been?"
And you see me kinda grinnin' while I'm scrubbin'
And you wonder, "What's she got to grin?"
And a ship, a black freighter
With a skull on its masthead
Will be comin' in...