Labor Day Song List
The Music Desk’s Labor Day Compilation Album 2008:
The Pretenders — “Back on the Chain Gang”
R.E.M. — “The Finest Work Song”
Wall of Voodoo — “Back in Flesh”
Johnny Paycheck — “Take This Job & Shove It”
Tennessee Ernie Ford — “16 Tons”
The Spinners — “Working My Way Back to You”
(1930s folk standard) — “I’ve Been Working on the Railroad”
James Brown — “The Boss”
The Minutemen — “This Ain’t No Picnic”
ZZ Top — “Just Got Paid”
The Go-Go’s — “Vacation”
Mojo Nixon & Skid Roper — “Where the Hell’s My Money”
The Jam — “Smithers-Jones”
Joe Hill — “There Is Power in a Union”
Rush — “Working Man”
Loverboy — “Working For The Weekend”
The Kinks — “A Well Respected Man”
Lee Dorsey — “Workin’ in a Coalmine”
