Name: Working Blues
Duration: 2 min 5 s
Channel: Daniel P. Raymer
Description: "Working Blues" is a song by Dan and David Raymer. Anti-employment song, written while at work - sorry, Boss! Acoustic country rock, Dan on banjo. "A father with a family has to work to pay the rent. A revolutionary pays the dues for his dissent..."

Working Blues

Dan and David Raymer

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Anti-employment song, written while at work - sorry, Boss! Acoustic country rock, Dan on banjo. "A father with a family has to work to pay the rent. A revolutionary pays the dues for his dissent..."

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Dan and David Raymer

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(to hear all our songs click on GoToTheMusicPage then on Hi-Fi) Dan (front) and David (standing) perform thoughtful original songs in an acoustic and bass guitar format with harmony vocals. This page has songs written by Dan, who played 12 and 6 string guitar, banjo, and keyboard. David played bass guitar and drum machine. Dan sang lead vocals, both shared the harmony, and David produced/engineered. Original lyrics are on the Music page (or click the "full" links). Songs are all copyright C by Dan Raymer. For some excellent songs written by David, check out Silvertown.

Song Info

Genre

Acoustic • Acoustic Folk

Charts

Peak #29

Peak in subgenre #10

Author

Daniel P. Raymer

Rights

2005

Uploaded

November 10, 2006

Track Files

MP3

MP3 1.9 MB • 128 kbps • 2:05

Story behind the song

I was at one of my first real jobs, bored and annoyed. Surely there is more to life.....

Lyrics

Up in the morning for the sun shows her head
Back after dusk tumbling into bead
Up the next morning with the same routine
Feeling like a man but working like a machine

Chorus:
  Working
  Harder every day
  Sweating for the pay, and a promise.
  Working
  What the hell for?
  Driven to the floor, in your sorrow.

A father with a family has to work to pay the rent. 
A revolutionary pays the dues for his dissent.
The rich have got it easy but they do not want to share.
So we work until we qualify for Medicare.

Chorus again:

Copyright C 2005 by D. Raymer. All Rights Reserved

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