Songs that mention occupations

[VERBAL DIARRHEA]

Don’t pay the Ferryman - Chris De Burgh

Tears of a Clown - Smokey Robinson

Baker St - Gerry Rafferty

[VladimirIlyich]

Rat Trap- Boomtown Rats. 

Pest Controller.

[Harry's Lad]

Chris Dr Burgh, Patricia.

Singer

Troops

Stripper

Police

Judge.

[Remmie]

From our very own Tom Ross:

 

Only a doctor will do

[Captain Willard]

10 hours ago, cloggypop said:

The Fall - Container Drivers

 

 

“And you get no thanks from the loading bay ranks” . Brilliant line. As anyone who has worked in a supermarket knows, the ongoing war between delivery drivers and warehouse staff is a bitter remorseless and merciless conflict, Sainsbury’s version of Stalingrad. 

[Total Longo]

Loads of McCartney Beatles songs, really. Certainly post Rubber Soul.

 

Eleanor Rigby 

Lovely Rita

Penny Lane

Maxwell's Silver Hammer

Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da

She's Leaving Home

Paperback Writer

[Bruce Spanner]

 

[easytoslip]

Hey Porter

The Heart of Saturday Night 

Dixie Chicken 

[Bjornebye]

Banger

 

 

 

[Pete]

Kiss - Calling Dr Love

Van Halen - Hot for Teacher

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Deacon Blue - Dignity (in which Bogie sweeps the street for the Council).

[stringvest]

Billy Bragg - Between The Wars

Billy Bragg - The Milkman of Human Kindness

Kirsty MacColl- There's a Guy Works Down The Chipshop Swears He's Elvis

[Total Longo]

 

Arguably the greatest lyrics ever penned, especially the "middle 8"...

[stringvest]

Jackson Browne - Doctor My Eyes

Randy Newman - Birmingham

 

[easytoslip]

8 minutes ago, stringvest said:

Jackson Browne - Doctor My Eyes

Randy Newman - Birmingham

 

First one is a great record. 

 

[stringvest]

3 minutes ago, easytoslip said:

First one is a great record. 

 

so is the second one...

 

My daddy was a barber
And a most unsightly man
He was born in Tuscaloosa
But he died right here in Birmingham
 

[Bjornebye]

 

 

[easytoslip]

5 minutes ago, stringvest said:

so is the second one...

 

My daddy was a barber
And a most unsightly man
He was born in Tuscaloosa
But he died right here in Birmingham
 

Ive not heard much of him, but after meeting a bird after many years i sent her that first one like a smitten teenager, as she was, and we both agreed it was to late for me, well both of us. 

Maybe one for the regret department. 

[Evelyn Tentions]

Son of a Preacher man.

I shot the Sheriff.

Taxi - Henry Chapin? Mentions a few.

Setting Fire to Policemen - Peter Sellers.

The Bold Gendarmes - Offenbach (a tune we're all familiar with).

Everything  The Police recorded.

The Laughing Policeman from a million years ago

Ghost Riders in the Sky  - cowpoke and cowboy.

 

 

 

 

[cloggypop]

8 minutes ago, Evelyn Tentions said:

Son of a Preacher man.

I shot the Sheriff.

Taxi - Henry Chapin? Mentions a few.

Setting Fire to Policemen - Peter Sellers.

The Bold Gendarmes - Offenbach (a tune we're all familiar with).

Everything  The Police recorded.

The Laughing Policeman from a million years ago

Ghost Riders in the Sky  - cowpoke and cowboy.

 

 

 

 

Ahem. Band names please. 

 

 

[Jarvinja Ilnow]

4 hours ago, Captain Willard said:

“And you get no thanks from the loading bay ranks” . Brilliant line. As anyone who has worked in a supermarket knows, the ongoing war between delivery drivers and warehouse staff is a bitter remorseless and merciless conflict, Sainsbury’s version of Stalingrad. 

Yes, but Stalingrad was a version of Kwiksave.

[cloggypop]

Robert Wyatt - Shipbuilding

 

 

[Captain Willard]

Elvis Costello - watching the detectives 

 

 

[Jarvinja Ilnow]

 

She was born in the wagon of a travellin' show
Her mama had to dance for the money they'd throw
Grandpa'd do whatever he could
Preach a little gospel
Sell a couple bottles of Doctor Good

 

 

 

 

Mother was a tailor, yeah, yeah
Sewed my Levi jeans
My father was a gamblin' man, yeah, yeah
Down, way down in New Orleans

 

[Jarvinja Ilnow]

 

And the singers in the chorus all got off on them singin' blues
And as the night grew older everybody was as one
The people on the streets came runnin' in to join in song
Just to hearing the opera singers singing rock and roll so pure
I thought I saw the mayor there
But I wasn't really sure
But it's alright

 

 

 

 

 

 

Saving nickles saving dimes
Working til the sun don't shine
Looking forward to happier times
On Blue Bayou

I'm going back someday
Come what may
To Blue Bayou
Where the folks are fun
And the world is mine
On Blue Bayou
Where those fishing boats
With their sails afloat