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Songs About Manual Labour
July 23, 2010
Blog
Column
Writer: Paul MacInnes

A List

Song

Artist

Recommended by

1

Coal Miner's Dughter

Loretta Lynn

tonymacp1

2

Cleaning Windows

Van Morrison

Mnemonic

3

Blue Yodel No 8 (Muleskinner Blues)

Jimmie Rodgers

RockingMitch

4

Working on the Highway

Bruce Springsteen

BeltwayBandit

5

Cvalda

Björk

saneshane

6

Eli, the Barrow Boy

The Decemberists

steenbeck

7

The Handweaver and the Factory Maid

The Imagined Village

Zalamanda

8

The Potato Pickers

Sir Vincent Lone

TatankaYotanka

9

Workin' in the Cornfield

Junior Murvin

DarceysDad

10

Stimela

Hugh Masekela

nilpferd

B List

Song

Artist

Recommended by

1

Th Railroad

Lee Hazlewood

BeltwayBandit

2

The Song of a Baker

The Small Faces

gordonimmel

3

Spaceship

Kanye West

steenbeck

4

Mali to Mississippi

Nico Wayne Toussaint

Makinavaja

5

Willin'

Little Feat

DarceysDad

6

Le Poinconneur des Lilas

Serge Gainsbourg

Noodsy

7

Washwoman's Blues

Bessie Smith

magicman

8

I Fell Into Painting Houses in Phoenix, Arizona

Richmond Fontaine

DarceysDad

9

Take This Hammer

Leadbelly

steenbeck

10

Last Shift

Richard Thompson

treefrogdemon

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