Labor Day is coming. I thought I would get an early start on musical connections. As a backdrop to all this is the widening gap between the top 1% and the rest of us. We're working harder and keeping less.
I recently read an article in the Huffington Post about the widening gap between the very rich and rest of us. Among the 10 worst countries with a huge gap between the wealthy and the rest of the population is the United States. Big government is often blamed but, this has more to do with accumulation of wealth by the top 1%. That accumulation is being stimulated a regressive tax system that cuts taxes for the wealthy. That's according to reports generated through the Gini Coefficient. The gap is the worst it has been since the start of The Great Depression.
Everybody Knows - Leonard Cohen
Everybody knows that the dice are loaded
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
Everybody knows that the war is over
Everybody knows the good guys lost
Everybody knows the fight was fixed
The poor stay poor, the rich get rich
Thats how it goes
Everybody knows
Working For A Living - Huey Lewis and the News
Big Boss Man - Jimmy Reed
Take This Job and Shove It - Johnny Paycheck
Call It Stormy Monday - T-Bone Walker
Working In A Coal Mine - Lee Dorsey
Coal Tattoo - Judy Collins
Chain Gang - Sam Cooke
Back On The Chain Gang - The Pretenders
Work Song - Nina Simone
Lift Up Every Stone - John Hiatt
Working for the Weekend - Loverboy
Someday - Steve Earle
Get a Job - Silhouettes
Mill Worker - Emmylou Harris
What are your favorite work songs? I would like your input. Feel free to add to the list.
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