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:

    “The true finish is the work of time, and the use to which a thing is put. The elements are still polishing the pyramids.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “I am black and beautiful, O daughters of Jerusalem, like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon.”
    —Bible: Hebrew, Song of Solomon 1:5.