Work Song

A work song is a piece of music closely connected to a specific form of work, either sung while conducting a task (often to coordinate timing) or a song linked to a task or trade which might be a connected narrative, description, or protest song.

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Famous quotes containing the words work and/or song:

    “I move my thin legs into your office
    and we work over the cadaver of my soul.
    We make a stage set out of my past
    and stuff painted puppets into it.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “Thy name is an ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins love thee.”
    —Bible: Hebrew The Song of Solomon 1:3.