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.

Read more about Work Song:  Definitions and Categories, Hunting and Pastoral Songs, Agricultural Work Songs, African American Work Songs, Sea Shanties, Cowboy Songs, Industrial Folk Song

Famous quotes containing the words work and/or song:

    “People here are funny. They work so hard at living, they forget how to live.”
    —Robert Riskin (1897–1955)

    “Now that you are laid out,
    useless as a blind dog,
    now that you no longer lurk,
    the song rings in my head.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)