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Job Song
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Most people make money via having a job, and some characters sing about their jobs (or jobs they're fantasising about having) or other people's, and this is when you get this trope. If the person is singing about their own job, this song could be positive, about how they really like their job because it contributes something important/good to society or because they just find it fun. It could also be negative, about how they hate their job (whether due to finding it boring, having a Mean Boss, not getting paid enough, it taking too long, finding it gross, or any other reason). It could also be a mixture of positive and negative, talking about how the job has both upsides and downsides. Often Played for Laughs by having a character with a job that people tend to classify as boring (fast-food restaurant workers and office workers are common candidates for this) sing about how they enjoy their job. These people are often seen as boring sticks-in-the-mud, but not always. If it's sung by other people, it usually means they admire the person's job and/or they wouldn't want to be stuck with it, but there are other reasons for singing about someone else's job. If it's sung by the one with the job, it can overlap with "I Am" Song (if the character's job is a notable part of their role and/or personality), "I Want" Song (if the character doesn't want that job), "I Am Becoming" Song (if their job is a step towards a different one or they're singing about their future job), Musical Chores (if their job involves cleaning up), or "I Am Great!" Song (if they're bragging about their job). Examples for pirates go under Pirate Song and examples for singers/musicians usually go under Rock Star Song. If the job in question is the oldest one there is, see Ballad of a Sex Worker. Compare Money Song. See Take This Job and Shove It for characters who hate their jobs enough to at least contemplate a Rage Quit. If used as a Theme Tune, it's usually an Expository Theme Tune and occasionally a Bragging Theme Tune, sometimes a Theme Tune Roll Call if the theme lists everyone's jobs. It may also overlap with "They've Come So Far" Song if their job was the result of a long process or Ode to Food if it's sung by a chef/waiter/waitress/etc. If the song is at the job's expense, than it's a Working Class Anthem. Crops up a lot in all kinds of works, but is particularly common in blues and folk music. |
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"Rockabye" by Clean Bandit is about a Single Mom Stripper who works for her six-year-old son to have a better future. | |
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In an episode of Alphablocks, X sings about how he's a superhero. | |
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In the Growing Up With Hello Kitty episode "Eating Nicely", the talking utensils sing about their job "delivering" food to people's mouths. | |
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In "Somebody's Gotta Do It" from Spies Are Forever, Sergio, (a bomb maker) and The Deadliest Man Alive (an assassin) sing about their respective professions ("Somebody's gotta do it; so it might as well be me"), the former claiming that he only does it for the money and to support his family, whereas the latter actively enjoys torturing his targets and even remarks that he'd kill them for free. | |
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Scott's best-known song, "You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive"note notably covered by Patty Loveless and Brad Paisley, isn't about coal mining, in the way that "Keep Your Dirty Lights On" or "Sixteen Tons" are... but it's about coal mining. | |
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The Simpsons episode "Trash of the Titans" has Homer singing "The Garbage Man Can" about all the things his new job as Springfield's Sanitation Inspector will allow him to do for its citizens. The song is a parody of "The Candyman" from Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, mentioned above in the "Film" folder. | |
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Thomas & Friends: "Jobs-A-Plenty" from The Great Discovery is about what the engines are doing to help restore Great Waterton. "The Work Song" is about the characters' different jobs, such as Jack and the Pack constructing buildings. |
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Urinetown: In "It's a Privilege to Pee", Penelope Pennywise sings about her job, which is making sure people pay to use the pay toilet. "The Cop Song" is sung by the cops about how they catch people violating the toilet-related laws. |
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Whose Line Is It Anyway? had a recurring sketch called "Greatest Hits", where songs about unlikely subjects would be made up on the spot. Jobs picked for "Greatest Hits" subject include butcher, lawyer, flight attendant, accountant, and bus driver. | |
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The Backyardigans has the characters pretending to be all sorts of occupations, and they always sing a song about whatever occupation they are. | |
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A variant in The Princess and the Frog: The song "Almost There" is about Tiana's future job owning a restaurant. | |
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"Long Hot Summer Day" by the Turnpike Troubadours is about, of all things, navigating freight barges on the Illinois River. (Like many of their songs, it also sketches a broader picture of working-class life in that region.) | |
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"Working Man" by Rush, a class complaint. | |
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Sesame Street: Exaggerated for "People in Your Neighbourhood", which talks about several different occupations that people you meet on the street might have. "Do the Doctor" is a song by some doctors creating a dance based on their profession. |
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In Yo Gabba Gabba!, the song "Doctor Doctor" is about what doctors do. | |
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The Doc McStuffins theme is about the titular character's job as a toy repair girl. | |
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"Sixteen Tons" — written by Merle Travis and popularized by Tennessee Ernie Ford — is one of the bleakest job songs in existence, as it's a man's lament that regardless of how hard he works, he'll never escape the Company Town. | |
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In Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter, Mr. Brown hires Herman's Hermits to work at his market and teaches them a song about selling fruit. | |
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Warframe has "We All Lift Together", a work song sung by the Solaris underneath the Corpus's thumb. It sings about their legacy and the constant work they do to escape the yoke of their debts, working together until they're free or die trying to earn their freedom. | |
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The Koala Brothers: The theme song is about the titular Koala Brothers' job helping people. | |
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HuGtto! Pretty Cure's first ending theme describes various jobs that people can have, fitting with the show's "careers" theme. | |
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"Better Life" from Arlo the Alligator Boy, sung by Ansel Beauregard about his life as a successful businessman. | |
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"Heigh-Ho" from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is sung by the Seven Dwarfs about their job digging in a mine all day. | |
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Little Shop of Horrors: "The Dentist Song" is sung by the dentist about how he's a dentist and therefore causes pain. | |
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"I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General" from The Pirates of Penzance has the eponymous Major-General boasting about his education, most of which is inapplicable to warfare and/or just not very impressive in the first place. | |
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"Jobs-A-Plenty" from The Great Discovery is about what the engines are doing to help restore Great Waterton. | |
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"Frozen Heart", the opening song of Frozen, is sung by ice harvesters and poetically describes their job. | |
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The Gondoliers has two of these for nobility: Marco and Giuseppe's song "Rising early in the morning" is about their everyday lives in their joint reign as King of Barataria. The Duke and Duchess, for their part, have a List Song about the many dubious things they do to maintain their social position. |
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Beaver from My Friends Tigger & Pooh sings a song about how "work, work, work, work is all [he seems] to do." | |
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"Found a Job" details the lives of a married couple who run their own production studio, making good-quality, well-regarded, and commercially successful TV shows in response to the constant trite on the airwaves that they used to argue over. | |
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The Wizard of Oz has the song "Merry Old Land of Oz", in which several workers in Oz, including the hairdressers, the repair workers, and a few people whose jobs seem to consist only of eating lunch, sing about their jobs. | |
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Fraggle Rock: "The Thirty-Minute Work Week": Wembley's friends sing "Workin'", a song about their jobs and the importance of work in general. The members of the Volunteer Fire Department sing "The Fireman's Anthem", a song about a typical day in the life of a Fraggle fireman. In "The Great Radish Famine", the Doozers sing "Doozer March Song", which is about the joy of building their constructions. |
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"Song of the Roustabouts" from Dumbo is sung by the circus's labourers as they set up the big top. It's about how the work is back breaking and the pay is poor, but the children's happiness makes it worth it. | |
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The Two Ronnies as Jehosophat and Jones have their own song about someone who works on the railroad: "Railroad Man". | |
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The Jungle Book: "Colonel Hathi's March" is sung by the elephants about their job of marching around aimlessly "in the military style". | |
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Les Misérables has a number of these: "Work Song" is sung by Jean Valjean and his fellow convicts as they engage in backbreaking manual labor (in the film version and some stagings, they are shown as galley slaves, as convicts in Toulon did in real life, although not as late as 1815 when the scene is set). "At the End of the Day" is mostly about the drudgery of factory work and how it's still better than the alternatives (begging or prostitution). "Lovely Ladies" is sung from the perspective of prostitutes as they go about their business and attempt to attract clients. Thénardier's "I Am" Song "Master of the House" is about being a crooked innkeeper. |
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Orpheus: A Poetic Drama has Hades extol the virtues of mindless labor in verse, and Underworld residents like Sisyphus, the Danaides, and Tantalus are eager to praise his wisdom. | |
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An episode of Futurama has "The Bureaucrat Song" about how bureaucrats get a bad rap, but it's best to do what you like anyway. | |
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Several songs in Hadestown feature the Workers toiling in Hades's factories: Their portions of "Chant" introduce them and the mantra they chant to keep out of trouble. "Why We Build the Wall" has Hades holding a rally to explain how "vital" their jobs are. "Way Down Hadestown (Reprise)" has Eurydice being inducted into the fold of Workers and the mines, mills and machinery. Later songs such as "If It's True" and "Chant (Reprise)" subvert the trope by starting out with the Workers at work like normal, but deciding to stop and stand with Orpheus. |
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In Annie (1982), the song "You're Gonna Like it Here" downplays this. It's about the inner workings of the Warbucks house, which includes, but is not limited to, the servants singing about what they do. | |
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The 2005 adaptation of The Producers has mousy accountant Leo Bloom sing a song that both bemoans the boring, dead-end job to which he's dedicated his life thus far, and exultantly voices his "secret desire" to become a glamorous and wealthy Broadway producer. | |
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In Titanic, "Barrett's Song" discusses the lead stoker's job shoveling coal in the boiler room of the Titanic and compares it to his previous life as a miner, and how there's no real difference between them. | |
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The song "Dentist!" from Little Shop of Horrors is sung by Audrey's abusive boyfriend Orin, whose career choice is depicted as a perfect fit for someone with his sadistic tendencies. | |
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The Lion King 1 ½: "Diggah Tunnah" shows Timon's former meerkat tribe constantly digging tunnels so they can stay safe from predators. | |
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Fly by Night: "Breakfast All Day" is about how much Miriam loves her job at Greasy Spoon Café, and how intrigued she is by the idea of eating breakfast at night. "Eternity" is partly about Harold sinking into depression while spending every day working in a tedious sandwich shop. |
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AC/DC: "It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock 'n' Roll)" is about the starvation wages and generally poor working conditions encountered by neophyte rock bands. | |
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Moshi Monsters: "Super Moshi March" is about the Super Moshis' job as superheroes. "The Doctor Will See You Now" is sung by Dr. Strangeglove about how he works as an evil scientist. In "The Missy Kix Dance", Missy Kix sings about how she's a singer and also a secret agent. |
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Postman Pat: The theme song is about Pat's job as a postman. One episode features a song about Ted Glenn's job fixing things. |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: "Art of the Dress" from "Suited for Success" is about Rarity's job as a fashion designer and seamstress, sung as she's making gala dresses for her friends. After they don't like the end result, it gets a Dark Reprise where she has to make new ones while dealing with their various demands. Downplayed for "The Flim Flam Cider Song" from "The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000". It's mainly just Flim and Flam advertising their cider maker, but it's also about how they're travelling salesponies. In "What My Cutie Mark is Telling Me" from "Magical Mystery Cure", the protagonists' (sans Twilight's) cutie marks (symbols on their rear thighs that convey their destinies) have been swapped, so they are singing about having to do one another's jobs and not being very good at them. |
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In Man of La Mancha, the barber has a song about what he does as a barber, a number which gets taken over by Don Quixote after a few verses under the misapprehension that the barber's washing basin is the legendary Golden Helmet of Mambrino. | |
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Central Park: Owen, Paige, and Helen's verses in "Own It" each discuss their job situations — Owen, the caretaker of Central Park, wants to be more confident in his role; journalist Paige wants to move out of writing fluff pieces for her small-scale paper; and maid Helen dreams of inheriting her Bad Boss's millions after years of demeaning labor. "If There's a Will" dives more into Helen's perspective working under Bitsy, believing that if she does everything just right she will make it into the childless Bitsy's will. In "Spoiler Alert", Birdie discusses his job as narrator and how important it is not to give his knowledge of future events away to the audience or the characters in the story. |
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Parodied with the notorious "Lumberjack Song" sketch in Monty Python's Flying Circus, in which a group of jolly lumberjacks singing a song like this are increasingly shocked when the lead singer changes the lyrics to come out about his gender dysphoria. | |
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Parodied in the Galavant song "If I Were a Jolly Blacksmith", where the incredibly out-of-touch Blue Blood/Manchild Richard tries to imagine working various common jobs instead of being King. The song he sings makes it clear that he has absolutely no idea what these jobs entail and is missing a lot of basic knowledge about the world. | |
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In The Yeomen of the Guard, Jack Point's Patter Song "A private buffoon" presents a rather cynical view of his occupation as jester. | |
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"Beat and Broken Spirits" from Jasper in Deadland is about the slaves in Mr. Lethe's factory endlessly toiling away. | |
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The Ghostbusters theme is about the protagonists' job hunting down ghosts and trapping them. | |
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"Hard to be the Bard" from Something Rotten! has William Shakespeare bemoan the hard work that comes with being a celebrity playwright. | |
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South Park: In "Butt Out", a chorus of cigarette factory workers sing a jolly song about the joys of their job. | |
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Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory has "The Candyman", in which a candy store owner sings about the joy children are given by the candy he sells them. | |
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Mary Poppins: Bert sings two songs like this because he has several jobs. One song is about his chalk drawings and another, "Chim Chim Cher-ee", is about his job as a chimney sweep and how sweeps are good luck. | |
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"Truckers are the Blood" by AJJ is about working in various ways, and ends with praising truckers. | |
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A Chorus Line has a number of songs dealing with dance as a profession, but "Dance Ten, Looks Three" is most directly about it, being a monologue about a character's attempts to get a job as a dancer. | |
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Crazy Ex-Girlfriend: The song "Don't Be A Lawyer", a New Jack Swing number where Jim vehemently insists to AJ that being a lawyer is a grueling, thankless job and Crusading Lawyers have it worse because there's no money in environmental, human rights, or immigration law. | |
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The Little Mermaid: "Poor Unfortunate Souls" is sung by Ursula about her job as a sorceress supposedly helping people. "Les Poissons" is sung by a chef about how he likes to cook seafood. |
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"Don't Worry About the Government" directly references working, but delves more into the location at which the narrator works than the job itself. | |
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The Numberjacks theme is about the Numberjacks' job solving problems. | |
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