Friday, September 25, 2015

The Rebel Black Dot Labor Song of the Day

Tennessee Ernie Ford, "Sixteen Tons" via iTunes (Mike Papa Whiskey)

Commentary: After yesterday's corporate jargon (which, though nauseating, is not intentionally misleading & is thus not doublespeak, however much I'd love to denounce it as such), how about an honest day's work?
"Some people say a man is made out of mud,
A poor man's made out of muscle and blood,
Muscle and blood and skin and bones,
A mind that's weak and a back that's strong.

"You load sixteen tons, what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt.
Saint Peter, don't you call me, 'cause I can't go:
I owe my soul to the company store.…"

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