CELEBRATIONS: Top 20 Songs to Celebrate Labor Day
by Whitney Long
In honor of the men and women that work hard every day, The Southern Coterie compiled a list featuring some of the best songs about working people. It is by no means a complete list… what started out as a top 10 list quickly became our top 20 list!
This Labor Day, we celebrate you – the American worker – and your economic contributions, social achievements and good old American work ethic. Could there be a better reason for a holiday?
Check out our list, watch a few videos and feel free to share your favorites with us. It just might make our 2013 Labor Day list. Kick back, relax and enjoy your much deserved day off and remember… Thanksgiving is not that far away!
Alabama – 40 Hour Week
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJGHVYPG_HY
Bachman Turner Overdrive – Takin’ Care of Business
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4sI5DG5sjc&feature=related
Brooks and Dunn – Hard Workin’ Man
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcXg8RrylII
Johnny Cash – The Legend of Johnny Hammer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3Hdobado20
Kenny Chesney and George Strait – Shiftwork
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfiJEfBNRqg
Jim Croce – Workin’ at the Carwash Blues
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zomwyZEYZNE
Lee Dorsey – Working in the Coal Mine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=di08xMxjRnk
Merle Haggard – Working Man Blues
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbEstJ98TcM
Billy Joel – Allentown
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYkjzEc6IJc
Huey Lewis and The News – Workin’ for a Livin’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcIK3akktLU
Randy Newman – A Piece of the Pie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQjO5c8vYkE
Johnny Paycheck – Take This Job and Shove It
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzGoDtmTllg
Dolly Parton – 9 to 5
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZGg2A3_3IA
Rolling Stones – Salt of the Earth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLsQ2CJQU8U
Bruce Springsteen – Factory
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xK-LY3D_TJs
Donna Summer – She Works Hard for the Money
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1py5Xom2UKI
The Beatles – A Hard Day’s Night
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=di08xMxjRn
The Vogues – Five O’Clock World
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukb7empCA7A
Working Man’s Ph.D = Aaron Tippin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xynOjYA-aBo
Lord Have Mercy on the Workin’ Man – Travis Tritt
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