Old songs that got lost in the pile, because….well, who knows why?

Sometimes, they simply weren’t good enough, sometimes they didn’t shout out at you “Sing Me!” And sometimes they weren’t for you to sing. The job of finding somebody else to sing a song is a full time one, which I personally have never had the commitment needed to follow through on.

Anyway I’ve just discovered one like that, a song for somebody else, that I wrote a few years ago. It was written when someone I know came up with this title “Work Shirt”. Not normally the sort of title I would jump at.

But I clearly went for it anyway, and wrote this kind of male version of Dolly Parton’s Nine Till Five. A country pop thing about a guy, tired of the world he’s now living in, and looking back on his working career. The song is, though I say so myself, very hooky and sing-alongable, even if the lyric has a dark side.

Maybe I’ll have to put it in a bottle and hope it finds its way to Nashville.

Anyway, here’s the lyric, if you’re interested:

It could be a bind, when you were serving time
Down at the daily grind
There was a job to do
You had to push on through
To the end of the line, to the end of line

But when the boss was shouting to get it done
You could laugh with the boys  (Work Shirt)
It’s a hard sweat, but you still had fun
You made some noise (Work Shirt)
No excuses, and no fuss, till the job was done
Work Shirt , you put your Work Shirt on

Who knows what the future holds
It’s a mad old world out there
Each night  on the news 
You can’t help but curse
Could it get much worse
So much to lose, so much to lose

But when the boss was shouting to get it done
You could laugh with the boys  (Work Shirt)
It’s a hard sweat, but you still had fun
You made some noise (Work Shirt)
No excuses, and no fuss, till the job was done
Work Shirt , you put your Work Shirt on

Musical Bridge

There’s a lot of things that you can’t change
Looking out from the cage
Each day you find
You need to let your mind
Focus the rage
Focus the rage

But when the boss was shouting to get it done
You could laugh with the boys  (Work Shirt)
It’s a hard sweat, but you still had fun
You made some noise (Work Shirt)
No excuses, and no fuss, till the job was done
Work Shirt , you put your Work Shirt on

But when the boss was shouting to get it done
You could laugh with the boys  (Work Shirt)
It’s a hard sweat, but you still had fun
You made some noise (Work Shirt)
No excuses, and no fuss, till the job was done
Work Shirt , you put your Work Shirt on

No excuses, and no fuss, till the job was done
Work Shirt , you put your Work Shirt on

You put your Work Shirt On 
Work Shirt
Put your Work Shirt On 
Work Shirt
Put your Work Shirt On