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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omZ05EtVVTg