Name: No More Work
Duration: P00H04M44S
Description: A protest folk song and labor song--written in the 1980s--that expresses a U.S. working-class freak's longing to be free of wage-slavery, to be "back on the road" and to live in a leisure-oriented-- not a money-oriented-- democratic and egalitarian U.S. society.

No More Work

by Bob A. Feldman

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A protest folk song and labor song--written in the 1980s--that expresses a U.S. working-class freak's longing to be free of wage-slavery, to be "back on the road" and to live in a leisure-oriented-- not a money-oriented-- democratic and egalitarian U.S. society.

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(chorus)
No more work for me
I just want to be free
You can lock me in chains
Or call me dirty names
But no more work for me.
(verses)
They forced us to the school
To listen to the fools
When we just wished to love and play
We wasted many days
Commuting in packed trains
Until at nght all the people sang: (chorus)
They bored us all to death
And made us nauseous
And made us long to be back on the road
The women all seemed plain
The men all seemed "lame"
And so we sang this chorus on the phone: (chorus)
And so we ran away
And made love in the hay
With lusty women and with tender men
And mad musicians shrieked:
"We'd still rather be freaks"
And we sang these words while drinking on our beds: (chorus)

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released October 16, 2023

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Bob A. Feldman Boston, Massachusetts

Bob A. Feldman has written public domain protest and biographical folk songs on a non-commercial basis in the Guthrie-Ochs-MacColl-Moore tradition for many years. He also has written a lot of public domain love songs.

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