My daddy was a prominent frogman.

more Stompin Tom

I'm a TTC Skidaddler yeah to sockit to my big red rattler-
Ya to sockit to my big red rattler
I've been a streetcar driver now about eleven years
& I know the old Toronto city well

There was this long lovely dancer in a little club downtown
I loved to watch her do her stuff

Seger ~ Main Street

Tom managed to stuff a lot of 'jobs' into Margo's Cargo

...
How Reggie brought for Margie home a cowsee dungsee clock?
With Margie bein a farmgirl, she almost took a fit-

The mountie pulled them over, is there somethin I can do?
Go right ahead sir, Margie said, "get in the back and moo!"

It was later in the evenin when they heard from Mr. Judge!
"I don't know what to give yas, but I'll never hold a grudge!"
I tink a tousand dollars would be fair to hand ya down-
And thirty days of lodging will be free upon da town!

Now Margo says to Reggie, "What a helluva deal we struck!"
"We mighta lost da cow, bye, but still we got da truck!"
And now they're back in Newfoundland,They're loadin up the the pig-
Cause Margo got da cargo, bye and Reggie's got da rig!

He come back home a full fledged auctioneer

Gordon Lightfoot, The Auctioneer

Who walks in the classroom cool and slow?
Who calls the English teacher Daddy-O?

Charlie Brown
The Coasters

Working nine to five what a way to make a living
Barely getting by it's all taking and no giving
They just use your mind and they never give you credit
It's enough to drive you crazy if you let it
Nine to five yeah they got you where they want to
There's a better life and you think about it don't you
It's a rich man's game no matter what they call it
And you spend your life puttin' money in his wallet


Dolly

If I were a carpenter
And you were a lady,
Would you marry me anyway?
Would you have my baby?

If a tinker were my trade
would you still find me,
Carrying the pots I made,
Following behind me.

When suppertime came, the old cook came on deck saying
Fellas, it's too rough to feed ya
At seven PM a main hatchway caved in, he said
Fellas, it's been good to know ya
The captain wired in he had water coming in
And the good ship and crew was in peril
And later that night when his lights went out of sight
Came the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald


Gordon Lightfoot

Dusty old farmer out working your fields


Murray McLauchlin - Farmer's Song

I Write the songs - Barry Manilow

Work all night on a drink of rum

Day-o
(also Star-o)
Belafonte

I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no0 more

Maggie's Farm - B ylan

We got to cut up stack up and load the cane -

Lead Man Holler - Belafonte

Well I work hard every day
Can't hardly wait to draw my pay

Working Hard - Jerry Lee Lewis

Dedicate one to the ladies...
Now summertime's here babe, need somethin' to keep you cool
Ah, now summertime's here babe, need somethin' to keep you cool
Better look out now though, Dave's got somethin' for you
Tell ya what it is
I'm your ice cream man, stop me when I'm passin' by

Van Halen ~ Ice Cream Man

Blue Monday
How I hate Blue Monay
Got to work like a slave all day

Fats Domino

I been ballin' a shiny black steel jackhammer
Been chippin' up rocks for the great highway

-- Easy Wind, from the "Workingman's Dead" album

Drivin' that train
High on cocaine
Casey Jones you'd better
Watch your speed

Casey Jones, from the "Workingman's Dead" album

A lotta poor man make a five dollar bill
Keep him happy all the time
Some other fellah's makin' nothin' at all
And you can hear him cryin'
"Can I go, buddy, can i go down
Take your shift at the mine?"

-- Cumberland Blues, from the "Workingman's Dead" album

who knew Set was a deadhead

Ridin down the river in an old canoe
a bunch of bugs and an old tennis shoe
out of the river all ugly and green
the biggest old alligator that I've ever seen
teeth big and pointed and his eyes were buggin out
contact the union, put the beggars to route
screamin and yellin and lickin his chops
he never runs he just stumbles and hops
just out of prison on six dollars bail
mumblin at bitches and waggin his tail

the dead ~ alligator

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