Last week, we asked: What songs define work in America?
Your answers included classics by Woody Guthrie, Sam Cooke, and The Beatles. And, of course, Dolly Parton's "9-5," Huey Lewis & The News' "Workin For A Livin," and Johnny Paycheck's "Take This Job and Shove it."
There weren't only suggestions from the previous century. You also suggested recent(ish) tunes: Breaking Benjamin's "I Will Not Bow," Rihanna's "Work," and First Aid Kit's "Waitress Song."
And so, without further exposition, here's the (in-no-ways concordant, sometimes explicit) compilation of your responses...
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