A survey of work songs from around the world, recorded by Alan and John A. Lomax. We narrow the definition of work song to mean specifically those sung to assist in or accompany actual jobs of work.
Visit the accompanying exhibit here.
Playlist (links to catalog records in the Lomax Digital Archive when available):
1a Alla Boara
1b A Mezzononte en Punto
2 Walter Brown on Privileged Penitentiary
3 Levee Camp Hollers
4a Track Lining Song and Talk
4b Dogging Steel
4c Sis Joe
5 Houston Bacon Sinking and Joining Iron
6a Di Yo Pa Hele
6b Naje Kanot-la
7a Dekouwe bwa-la
7b Clyde Maxwell wood chopping
7c John Bray Cypress Logging
8 Winnowing songs
8b Shouts on the threshing floor
8c Unidentified Threshing Song
9a I Like Picking Olives
9b Bentara Noa
9c Larre Berrian
10a Warning Cry
11b O’s Toils
12a O’s Fhada
12b Oganach
12c An Cuala