The Rebel Black Dot Labor Song of the Day

Dropkick Murphys, "Worker's Song" from Blackout (Mike Papa Whiskey)

Commentary: I disagree with the Dropkick Murphys politics generally & with the jaundiced opinions expressed in "Worker's Song" specifically, but that is not to say they don't have a point, even in they express it with much the same lack of charity for which they indict their opponents. What's a week of songs about labor, in such close geographic proximity to the birthplace of the United Auto Workers, of which your humble narrator was once a member, without a little misguided blue-collar rage?

Of course, they contradict themselves, at one point singing:

"Yeah, this one's for the workers who toil night and day,
By hand and by brain to earn your pay…"

But then later:

"In the factories and mills, in the shipyards and mines…"

So, they praise workers who toil using their brains, but because that might include lawyers & investment bankers who toil for one hundred-plus hours a week, they then have to restrict "the workers who toil night & day" to a select few types of occupations. Not a word spared the toil necessary to generate the capital needed for those factories, mills, & shipyards to be build, for those mines to be dug. Only those who work in the proper twentieth century industrial occupations are true "workers." Socialist class-warfare claptrap, that.