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ESL forum > Ask for help > SONG => UNEMPLOYMENT    

SONG => UNEMPLOYMENT



Jesiwin
Argentina

SONG => UNEMPLOYMENT
 
Hi everybody!!!
Does anyone know a song related to work... or better, to unemployment???Confused
pleeeeaaaase!
Thanks! 

30 Sep 2009      





karinadebard
Argentina

Don �t Give Up, by Peter Gabriel :-)

30 Sep 2009     



patspring
Barbados

There is a song entitled "Education" by a Trinidadian calypsonian called the Mighty Sparrow.

30 Sep 2009     



puddyd
Oman

Dolly Parton �s  Working 9 Till 5

30 Sep 2009     



libertybelle
United States

Whistle while you work.

30 Sep 2009     



alien boy
Japan

Just a few to get you going...
 
 
Everybody wants to work  (uncanny X-Men)
 
 
 
 
Arlo Guthrie - Unemployment Line*
 
Now there �s a new craze a-goin � �round
It �s gettin � bigger in most every town
From New York City out to Hollywood
Got everybody in the neighborhood
CHORUS:
Down in the unemployment line
You got yourself a place and I got mine
We been here waitin � since the clock struck nine
Down in the unemployment line
Now every day you �ve got to fight the horde
Just to read what �s on the bulletin board
When you go back and try and claim your space
Some other sucker come and stole your place

CHORUS
I hope the people in the government
Tell us how we �re gonna pay the rent
How we �re gonna get enough to eat
No that the workin � man is obsolete
If things keep goin � like they seem they do
Won �t be long before they �re down here too
And they can be a part of this here mob
Workin � nine to five to find a job
CHORUS
 
 
 
JJ Cale: Unemployment Line
 
Beating down the pavement, looking for a job
I �ll do anything except steal and rob
Unemployment is something I can �t use
If you can �t use me, can you tell me some good news
I �ll be pretty simple, hear just what I say
I �ll do anything to send these blues away
Unemployment is something I can �t use
If you can �t help me, can you tell us some good news
You won �t have to pay me overtime, overtime and all that
You just tell me what time and where at
Unemployment is something I can �t use
If you can �t help me, can you tell me some good news
I �ll do anything at all, anything at all to be a friend
You know I �m real prompt, I �m right on time
Unemployment is something I can �t use
If you can �t help me, can you tell me some good news
 
Allentown by Billy Joel...

30 Sep 2009     



MarionG
Netherlands

Nobody knows you when you �re down and out
or, a bit more poetic; God bless the child (who �s got his own)
Hard days night
Richard Cory
Working class hero
living the life of the common people (I �m not sure that is the title)

30 Sep 2009     



Jayho
Australia

Hi Jesiwin
 
Check out this site:
These 10 Great Songs Put the Human Face on Unemployment Statistics
 
and this site too:
 
 
There �s also
 
I Don �t Wanna Work - Uncanny X-Men
Unemployed- Bluejuice 
To Her Door - Paul Kelly
Get on the dole - The Clap 
 
Cheers
 
Jayho
 

30 Sep 2009     



morganalin
Portugal

I just want to thank all of u you suggested great songs. I have chosen some of them to work with my adult class.
Greetings from Portugal
 
N.B. And by the way do u know any useful song about food vs fast food that I could use with adults?
Thanks

30 Sep 2009     



tjmorton11
Slovakia

This was a big hit in the USA.  It has a country music style twang:
 
"Take This Job and Shove it!"
 
(Chorus:)
Take this job and shove it
I ain �t working here no more
My woman done left and took all the reasons
I was working for
You better not try to stand in my way
As im a walking out the door.
Take this job and shove it
I ain �t working here no more

Ive been workin in this factory
From now on fifteen years
All this time I watched my woman
Drowning in a pool of tears
And Ive seen a lot of good folk die
Who had a lot of bills to pay
I �d give the shirt right off of my back
If I had the nerve to say

(Chorus)

Well that foreman, hes a regular dog
The line boss, hes a fool
Got a brand new flat-top haircut
Lord, he thinks hes cool
One of these days, Im gonna blow my top
And that sucker, hes gonna pay
Lord I cant wait to see their faces
When I get up the nerve to say

(Chorus)

(Instrumental)

Take this job and shove it

30 Sep 2009