Work Songs

A.L. Lloyd defined the industrial work song as “the kind of vernacular songs made by workers themselves directly out of their own experiences.” (source)

• African American Spirituals

• Cowboy Songs

• Sea Shanties

• A-Lumbering We Go

• Cotton Needs Pickin’

• Erie Canal

• Drill Ye Tarriers

• Harvest Time

• I’ve Been Working on the Railroad

• John Henry

• Paddy Works on the Railway

• Shanty Boys

• Song of the Volga Boatmen

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