r/country • u/GoosebumpsRanger • 11h ago

Seeking Song Suggestions Songs about the working man

I’m thinking like:

Cafe Down On The Corner
Lord Have Mercy On The Working Man
Sixteen Tons
If We Make It Through December

What songs are like this?

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u/Intelligent-Ear-7857 11h ago

Forty Hour Week (For A Livin’) - Alabama

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u/Logical-Speaker-845 11h ago

Workin' Man's Blues - Merle Haggard

Another Day, Another Dollar - Wynn Stewart

Small-Time Laboring Man - George Jones

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u/Prestigious_Run1098 11h ago

Big City - Merle Haggard, Friday Night Blues - John Conlee, 9 to 5 - Dolly Parton

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u/bufftbone 11h ago

Living the Dream by Sturgill Simpson

Workingman Blues by Merle Haggard

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u/unzercharlie 10h ago

Take this job and shove it, Johnny Paycheck

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u/No_Angle875 11h ago

Working Man - Larry Fleet

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u/Brilliant-War-6156 10h ago

Hard hat and a hammer- Alan Jackson

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u/Fast_College_9442 10h ago

Workin' Man (Nowhere to Go) - The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

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u/Candid-Sky-3258 9h ago

Every other Merle Haggard song.

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u/mohawkatlarge 11h ago

Hands of a Working Man - Ty Herndon

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u/AFewForLeftyToo 10h ago

Great song. He has some really good ones.

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u/myguysdialed 9h ago

Working on the Highway - Bruce Springsteen

Robot Killed the Working Man - Zach Bryan

Something More Than Free - Jason Isbell

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u/Initial-Ingenuity-19 8h ago

I’d add Outfit by Drive By Truckers to this list also

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u/metallikat87 8h ago

Came here to add Something More Than Free

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u/drjunkie 8h ago

Which Side Are You On - sung by Pete Seeger

Union Maid - Woody Guthrie

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u/GoosebumpsRanger 8h ago

Which Side Are You On was originally written by Florence Reece after police raided her house looking for her husband because he was a union member fighting for better conditions in the mines. She tore off a piece of a calendar and wrote it very quickly.

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u/metallikat87 8h ago

Old Crow does a good Union Maid too.

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u/unhalfbricklayer 1h ago

Blackleg Minor by Steeleye Span (and others) is a good union worker song too.

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u/Vegetable-Aside7548 10h ago

Shift Work- George Straight and Kenny Chesney

Wichita Lineman- Glen Campbell

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u/RainOk7545 10h ago

"Working Man's Dollar," by Chris LeDoux

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u/fuzzy_mic 9h ago

Conversation with a Mule

Dark As A Dungeon

Pay Gap - Margo Price

Working Woman - Ruthie Foster

Forty Hour Week (For a Livin')- Alabama

Shuttin' Detroit Down - John Rich

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u/CylonSandhill 8h ago

Little Man - Alan Jackson

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u/tatertaunt 2h ago

Save a penny because it's jumbo size 

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u/Can_Not_Double_Dutch 7h ago

Common Man - John Conlee

Working Mans PhD - Aaron Tippin

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u/hellbillybeachbum 7h ago

Time off for bad behavior-David Allan Coe, I don’t do windows-Hank Cochran, six pack of beer-Hank III

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u/hellbillybeachbum 7h ago

Black land farmer- Frankie Miller

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u/LaylaBelle12 6h ago

Working Man’s Song- Morgan Wallen

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u/srirachaontop 4h ago

Came here to mention this song!

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u/free2beme247 6h ago

The whole Country Pride Album. Merle.

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u/762way 5h ago

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band {The Long Hard Road {Working Man

Bruce Springsteen {The River

So many of Jim Croce's songs

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u/Pyrrhonian_Sleptic 10h ago

Quittin Time - Keith Whitley

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u/artichoke424 10h ago

Working Man's PHD by Aaron Tippin!

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u/jcmib 10h ago

Oney and one piece at a time both by Johnny cash are humorous working songs.

If you want a regular working song, 40 hour week by Alabama

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u/Hefty-Set5384 10h ago

Hard Travellin’ … Woody Guthrie

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u/NovaBob70 9h ago

Working in the Coal Mine….Lee Dorsey

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u/FloodDawg 9h ago

- Merle Haggard “A Working Man Can’t Get Nowhere Today”

  • David Childers “Greasy Dollar”
  • John Conlee - The Carpenter”
  • Steve Earle “Harlan Man”
  • Charlie Rich “Big Boss Man”
  • Willie Nelson “Tired”
  • Jake Xerxes Fusell “Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues”

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u/No-Mission-3100 9h ago

Cleaning Windows- Van Morrison

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u/ProCircuit 8h ago

Working man - Rush

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u/just57572 7h ago

Workin’ man’s dollar- Chris Ledoux

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u/LookAnOwl 2h ago

I know he's not some people's cup of tea, but Zach Bryan just put out an EP with a song called Robot Killed the Working Man.

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u/Few-Resident6319 9h ago

Finally Friday- George Jones

Hard Hat and a Hammer- Alan Jackson

Workin Man- Randy Houser

Red White and Pink Slip Blues- Hank Jr.

I Got It Honest- Aaron Tippin

Working Man’s PHD- Aaron Tippin

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u/good_neighbor77 10h ago edited 10h ago

Small Town Southern Man - Alan Jackson

Hard Workin’ Man - Brooks & Dunn

Working Man’s Phd - Aaron Tippin

Cost of Livin’ - Ronnie Dunn

Coal Miner’s Daughter - Loretta Lynn

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u/Dick_Dietrick 10h ago

"Dark as a Dungeon"

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u/owmybotheyes 10h ago

Looking For A Job -Todd Snider
Stuck on The Corner (Prelude to a Heart Attack) — Also Todd Snider

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u/shaggy2dope42 9h ago

Lifetime of work-Benjamin Tod

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u/that_one_wierd_guy 9h ago

rust belt fields

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u/RainOk7545 9h ago

And, not "man," but I'd say Kacey Musgrave's "Blowin' Smoke" absolutely belongs in this category.

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u/chesting321 9h ago

This Fucking Job- Drive By Truckers
Working for the Man-Roy Orbison
Oney - Johnny Cash
Dark As a Dungeon- Dolly Parton
Joe the Singing Janitor- Junior Beown

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u/bleedingjim 9h ago

B&D - hard workin man

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u/J3W4L3 8h ago

Roughneck by Johnny Cash

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u/Vprbite 8h ago

Cant cash my checks

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u/ljwright58 8h ago

William Michael Morton only had one album but it had some really good songs on it. I don’t drink beer, but I thought this was a good song, and it fits what you are looking for. It’s called Beer Drinker

https://youtu.be/87U2CUQQxG4?is=lzWmTgyq_xcfjFnz

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u/Turbulent-Builder-63 7h ago

The entire 9 to 5 album (Dolly Parton) is about working men and women.

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u/loppybuny 7h ago

oney- Johnny Cash

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u/bubwagon 7h ago

Working Man Blues - Merle

Take This Job and Shove It - Paycheck

Oney - Cash

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u/9919cigar 6h ago

The Working Man- Cody Jinks

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u/Electrical_Wafer_743 5h ago

Emily Ann Roberts - Scratching Out a Living

Kaitlin Butts - What Else Can She Do

Brooks & Dunn - Hard Working Man

Wheeler Walker Jr - Fuck This Job

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u/Need_brooks_no_delay 5h ago

Takin’Care Of Business by BTO

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u/Ancient-Lake-2882 5h ago

Blue Collar Man - Styx

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u/Numerous_Tax_5209 4h ago

Take this job and shove it. D.A.C.

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u/Apprehensive-Fig3223 4h ago

Detroit city and Streets of Baltimore

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u/Shinydisclover 4h ago

Please come to Boston - David Allan Coe 

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u/Psychological_Salt93 3h ago

Coal. Hard times . Both Tyler Childers. Many more too but these were first in my head.

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u/HelpfulAnywhere3731 2h ago

You'll never leave Harlan alive, Patty Loveless.

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u/Olsowy1973 1h ago

Drinking Class. Lee Brice

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u/Lost_Mood_9951 1h ago

Midnight regulations - Alexisonfire

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u/unhalfbricklayer 1h ago

Working Man Blues by Devil Makes Three

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u/countryguy6969 1h ago

Hard workin man - Brooks & Dunn. 40 hour week - Alabama

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u/itsSomethingCool 1h ago

Marcus King - Hard Working Man

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u/Automatic_Bat_6742 1h ago

Rush. Working man

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u/Automatic_Bat_6742 1h ago

Styx working man

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u/iBUYbrokenSUBARUS 45m ago

What about that song called, “Please use punctuation”?

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u/GoosebumpsRanger 7m ago

I missed a period in the title. The text body has punctuation.

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u/Raymont_Wavelength 33m ago

Working Man -Jackson Browne
Job Description -Alan Jackson

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u/RipsLittleCoors 21m ago

Keep the wolves away - uncle lucius

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u/unhalfbricklayer 19m ago

"I Drive A Truck" by Jessy Ahern