Perhaps these belong in an unemployment thread but anyway..... Blackstuff Lads-Gis' A Job Rory Gallagher-At The Depot-well i'm hanging around the depot boys trying to get a job i'm so sick and tired of being laid off
"Here come Louie, works in the sewer, He gonna choogle tonight..." "Keep On Chooglin" by Creedence Clearwater Revival, an extraordinary lyric in which John Fogerty not only coins a new verb ("choogle," which he defines in the first verse) but also, through the use of Fogerty's patented vowel mutation technique, manages to make "Louie" rhyme with "sewer," (ultimately sounding something like "here come Lou-eh, woiks in the soo-eh.") And the big wheel keep on toinin'...
Jerry Miller used to introduce this song that it turned Tennessee Ernie Ford into Tennessee Ernie Cadillac
John Stewart, "Gold," 1979: Ah, my buddy Jim Bass he's a-workin' pumpin gas And he makes two fifty for an hour He's got rhythm in his hands as he's tappin' on the cans Sings rock and roll in the shower Drivin' over Kanan, singin' to my soul There's people out there turnin' music into gold
Bethlehem Steel - Jack Blanchard and Misty Morgan The Rolling Mills of Middletown - Tom T. Hall John Henry - Traditional folk song
