Songs About / On: WORK

Push it along
Work work work to make it work
Push it along
Work work work to make it work
Push it along
Work work work if you want to improve it
Push it along read more »

You got to work hard, you got to work hard
If you want any at all
You got to work hard, you fot to work hard
If you want any at all
Nothing comes easy
And that’s a fact
Nothing comes easy
But to broken back read more »

We, jah people, can make it work;
Come together and make it work, yeah!
We can make it work;
We can make it work. read more »

Keep the home fires burning
While Papa's earning the pittance he calls his pay
You've got to get up so early in the morning
To keep your job, let alone find one these days
Hear them sing in the streets now read more »

We're all working in a hit
Factory
We're all working in a hit
Factory
We're all working in a hit read more »

Petryfied for the millionth time
Slowly my soul evaporates
No parachutes no dismal clouds
Just this fucking space read more »

petrified for the millionth time slowly my soul evaporates
no parachutes no dismal clouds just this fucking space
i know what's coming l'm not working i know what's
coming l'm not working
sweating out intelligence like i don't know what it is read more »

[the pogues’ version]
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In eighteen hundred and forty-one
The corduroy breeches I put on
Me corduroy breeches I put on
To work upon the railway, the railway
I’m weary of the railway
Poor paddy works on the railway read more »

Well I’m hiding my eyes from the morning sun
And I keep on working till the work is all done
But a voice in my head keeps ticking away
As the sweat’s hosed down from yet another day
Well he works hard
And he lives hard
And he breaks his back without nothing to gain
While the boss man sits around and drinks champagne read more »

I can’t wait to get home to you
I got so much work to do, work
I’m taking care of business baby can’t you see
I goota make it for you, and I gotta make it for me
Sometimes it may seem boy I’m neglecting you
But I’d love to spend more time
But I got so much to do read more »