work song

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work song

A song sung to accompany work, typically having a steady rhythm.

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work song - a usually rhythmical song to accompany repetitious work

song, vocal - a short musical composition with words; "a successful musical must have at least three good songs"

chantey, chanty, sea chantey, shanty - a rhythmical work song originally sung by sailors

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chantey chanty field-holler sea chantey shanty Song vocal			Widely regarded as Australia's unofficial anthem and a jukebox staple the world over, the Men at Work song was a worldwide hit in the early 1980s, becoming the theme tune for the victorious Australian team in the 1983 edition of yachting's Americas Cup. Australia's Men at Work accused of plagiarism by AFP / AFP Global Edition With a thick Somerset accent, Adge played on his West Country roots, singing many folk songs with local themes such as cider making (and drinking), farming, dung-spreading, local villages and industrial work songs, often with a comic slant. Rock of Ages by Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England) In my holy ghostly breath, I whisper fissured work songs in to hollowness, songs like the bones of eagle's wings under cutting some corner of blue. Company British Columbia, 1858 by Compton, Wade / Kola			work day work down work ethic work experience work farm work flow work force work function work hardening work in work in progress work load work of art work off work on work order work out work over work papers work party work permit work release work sheet work shift work shoe work song work station work stoppage work study work surface work table work through work time work to rule work unit work up work up to work-board work-clothes work-clothing work-harden work-in work-in-progress work-sharing work-shirt work-shy work-study work-study program work-to-rule work-worn workability			Work shadowing Work shadowing Work shadowing Work Sharing Work Sharing Work Sharing Work Sharing While Learning work sheet work sheet work sheet work sheet Work Sheet Control Number work shift work shift Work Shift Schedule work shoe Work shop Work shop Work shop work side by side with work simplification Work Simplification Program Work Skills Series Manual Dexterity Work Smart Standards Work Smart, Work Carefully Work Smarter Not Harder Work Socialization of Youth work socks off work some fat off work some weight off to work song Work songs Work Space Work standardization Work Standards Day Work Statement Work Statement and Authorization Work Statement Paragraph Work station Work station Work station Work Station Control Center Work Station Controller Work Station Function work station independence Work Station Support Function Work Station/Control Station Work Status work stoppage work strain Work Stream Leader work stress work stroke work study work study Work Study Group work surface work surface Work Surface / Document Storage

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