Dropkick Murphys - "Worker's Song" (Full Album Stream)

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  • Listen to the full album at bit.ly/1rrRerE
    "Worker's Song" by Dropkick Murphys from the album 'Blackout,' available now
    Download the album on iTunes: bit.ly/1zJWxaE
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Komentáře • 195

  • @CollinMcLean
    @CollinMcLean Před 3 měsíci +29

    It doesn't matter if we work at a desk or a drive thru, behind a cash register or behind the wheel of a truck, if we break our backs on a dock or in a hospital ward. All working class people deserve what we're owed.

    • @Dgggless
      @Dgggless Před 34 minutami

      Absolutely. Globally!,,/

  • @Monalisacat37
    @Monalisacat37 Před 3 měsíci +9

    I'm 71 and this song gave me goosebumps.

  • @InchonDM
    @InchonDM Před 2 lety +161

    Never forget, and NEVER forget, that every single thing that makes your life bearable was won for you by someone's sweat, blood, or outright life. The eight hour day, the lunch break, the federal holiday, the minimum wage -- as inadequate as it is now -- all the result of people, of good fellows just like you, who were willing to put the only thing they had on the line because they could tell that the world was not giving them their fair share, and if not for them, they wanted it for those who came after them. There's a reason that the worker's flag is deepest red, because it represents the only thing the worker has to give, and to lose.
    Never, never forget it. Because I assure you, the fat cats who don't want you to have it -- who want to wring even more blood from your stone, who want you to have nothing so they can have everything -- have not forgotten.

    • @chrisd368
      @chrisd368 Před rokem +1

      Too true my good fellow.

    • @davidfriend6462
      @davidfriend6462 Před rokem +4

      That's why we need a union.

    • @muffled1419
      @muffled1419 Před rokem +5

      Yes! Fuck yeah! Remember that the minimum wage is your employer saying that if they could pay you less, they would. Stay together, you are not a machine!

    • @davidfriend6462
      @davidfriend6462 Před rokem +2

      @@muffled1419 Soldidarity forever, my man.

    • @iamwhoyousayiam6773
      @iamwhoyousayiam6773 Před 7 měsíci

      Well said.

  • @snowieken
    @snowieken Před 3 lety +147

    Just dropping a comment to express my appreciation for the "by hand or by brain" line. I'm all for standing up for "the little man", but too many people believe that the little man doesn't include working your ass off for a paycheck at a desk.

    • @kingbear7874
      @kingbear7874 Před 3 lety +16

      Ive done both. Ive got endless respect for desk folks because I couldn't do it.

    • @darklord8626
      @darklord8626 Před 2 lety +12

      Phrase comes from the British Labour Party's constitution of 1918. Clause IV pledged 'to secure to the workers by hand and brain the full fruits of their labour'

    • @VickiBee
      @VickiBee Před 2 lety +2

      The ones who worked for Eric, our loved one who was VP when he was 29, all liked him. They say so every year (he died on September 11 in Tower 1) and give precise examples of why. One even said "he came into work early all the time."
      So did the other VP, I think he was the Sr. VP.
      Everyone who was there when it happened died and were hacked into pieces, while the tower fell on them and gathered weight as it fell.

    • @michaelpaoli5996
      @michaelpaoli5996 Před 2 lety

      Office workers are exposed to humiliating abuse every day and far too often nobody seems to care. Vomiting every morning from the stress, working longer hours without more pay...

    • @abmackay
      @abmackay Před rokem +10

      And almost all of us use both. Skilled trades, artisans, healthcare workers, scientists, tailors, hairdressers... They see us as just productivity generating units, but in reality, we're all hand workers, and we're all brain workers. And we should be treated accordingly.

  • @lloydharkins
    @lloydharkins Před 5 lety +118

    We're the first ones to starve, we're the first ones to die
    The first ones in line for that pie-in-the-sky
    And we're always the last when the cream is shared out
    For the worker is working when the fat cat's about
    And when the sky darkens and the prospect is war
    Who's given a gun and then pushed to the fore
    And expected to die for the land of our birth
    Though we've never owned one lousy handful of earth

    • @ai4313
      @ai4313 Před 3 lety +5

      That's how Blue Collar will always be defined. Always!

    • @leescott1775
      @leescott1775 Před 8 měsíci

      never a truer word spoken

    • @esokten
      @esokten Před 6 měsíci

      This is even beautiful when you translate to any other languages ❤

    • @freddiemiranda5366
      @freddiemiranda5366 Před 3 měsíci

      So true 👍 👍👍...!

  • @samkerr98
    @samkerr98 Před měsícem +1

    Why is this not more popular I listen to this and I cant stop listening to it

  • @stevies4525
    @stevies4525 Před 4 lety +93

    As a proud union stagehand this song speaks to me.

    • @tobyparsons2480
      @tobyparsons2480 Před 4 lety +15

      I care

    • @jonmathews3628
      @jonmathews3628 Před 3 lety +2

      Your obviously not in Australia
      Unions are weak as piss and full of try hard stand over men and petty criminals
      Back in the day however they actually had balls and brains
      It's all about making a profit these days

    • @tobyparsons2480
      @tobyparsons2480 Před 3 lety +9

      Laborers 373 pgh pa!! Happy labor day to everyone that goes out and earns an honest living ,union or not

    • @christophersmallwood3944
      @christophersmallwood3944 Před 3 lety +9

      Proud railroad union worker this song speaks to me as well

    • @aleksandarduras5475
      @aleksandarduras5475 Před 2 lety

      @@MaximusWolfe you maybe not,but others....you nevere knew,ok.Leave others dudes to keep dreaming on

  • @reinaldyhikmawan5329
    @reinaldyhikmawan5329 Před 2 lety +20

    Yeah, this one's for the workers who toil night and day
    By hand and by brain to earn your pay
    Who for centuries long past for no more than your bread
    Have bled for your countries and counted your dead
    In the factories and mills, in the shipyards and mines
    We've often been told to keep up with the times
    For our skills are not needed, they've streamlined the job
    And with sliderule and stopwatch our pride they have robbed
    We're the first ones to starve the first ones to die
    The first ones in line for that pie-in-the-sky
    And always the last when the cream is shared out
    For the worker is working when the fat cat's about
    And when the sky darkens and the prospect is war
    Who's given a gun and then pushed to the fore
    And expected to die for the land of our birth
    Though we've never owned one lousy handful of earth?
    We're the first ones to starve the first ones to die
    The first ones in line for that pie-in-the-sky
    And always the last when the cream is shared out
    For the worker is working when the fat cat's about
    We're the first ones to starve the first ones to die
    The first ones in line for that pie-in-the-sky
    And always the last when the cream is shared out
    For the worker is working when the fat cat's about
    We're the first ones to starve the first ones to die
    The first ones in line for that pie-in-the-sky
    And always the last when the cream is shared out
    For the worker is working when the fat cat's about
    All of these things the worker has done
    From tilling the fields to carrying the gun
    We've been yoked to the plough since time first began
    And always expected to carry the can

  • @begrackled
    @begrackled Před 3 lety +57

    They said about James Connoly that they socialists couldn't understand his republicanism and the republicans couldn't understand his socialism. I knew right then that was my guy.

    • @davidelfving5138
      @davidelfving5138 Před 3 lety +17

      Republicanism has been intertwined with socialism for most of it’s history, i find it hard to believe that socialists would have much problem with being anti-monarchist.

    • @user-wg3jb2vm1k
      @user-wg3jb2vm1k Před 6 měsíci

      ​@@davidelfving5138😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

    • @thehistoricalgamer1960
      @thehistoricalgamer1960 Před 2 měsíci +1

      @@davidelfving5138the quote is probably referring the more “extreme” authoritarian socialists

  • @lukedoesbutter
    @lukedoesbutter Před 4 lety +39

    Solidarity brothers and sisters

    • @MaximusWolfe
      @MaximusWolfe Před 4 lety +1

      Shove it, red.

    • @user-qq2cu7rk7g
      @user-qq2cu7rk7g Před 3 lety +5

      Вместе!😁

    • @LibertyUnderpants
      @LibertyUnderpants Před 3 lety +5

      SOLIDARITY!

    • @Purpleh4ze404
      @Purpleh4ze404 Před rokem +2

      @@MaximusWolfe if the notion of standing together with your fellow worker for a better life is “red” then I guess I’m a full on communist and you should be too cause there’s no reason not to support the unions

    • @MaximusWolfe
      @MaximusWolfe Před rokem

      @@Purpleh4ze404
      Basically

  • @risipieces
    @risipieces Před 2 lety +12

    hi i had just read the words “slide rule” on wikipedia and then had just a snippet of this song (just the bit that goes “FROM SLIDERULE TO STOPWATCH”) loop in my brain over and over again, and i had to get up and walk a loop around the kitchen to remember what it was from

  • @tennisjiujitsu
    @tennisjiujitsu Před 2 měsíci +1

    After a few hours of sleep you get up for the 6am clock in. Your body aches but you get up anyway, because you’re a worker.

  • @davidhernandez9046
    @davidhernandez9046 Před 7 lety +25

    fuckin love this song. rock on murphys

  • @denpobedy7881
    @denpobedy7881 Před 6 měsíci +1

    my family in a nutshell. immigrant workers with skills, who never hesitated to pick up the gun as needed. We still preserve their purple hearts and other battle decorations. I have successes standing on their shoulders. I am so grateful.

  • @sethmizrachi8337
    @sethmizrachi8337 Před 11 měsíci +4

    I was going to blast this on loop at the UPS strike but they worked out a mostly fair contract a week before we would have gone on strike.

    • @CollinMcLean
      @CollinMcLean Před 2 měsíci

      Awww man that would've been epic. Especially since Ken Casey's own grandfather was a Teamster and a big reason he and the Dropkick Murphy's are so strongly pro union.

  • @Marlboro.Reds1776
    @Marlboro.Reds1776 Před 3 lety +14

    Boilermakers Local 107 and damn proud. We’re the king of all trades.

  • @deathbyparadox6492
    @deathbyparadox6492 Před 3 lety +14

    Hits a lil different in 2021 :/

  • @Klaevin
    @Klaevin Před 9 měsíci +1

    I'm so glad to have a faster paced, more modern version of this song

  • @KamaAnthem
    @KamaAnthem Před 6 měsíci +1

    as an F&B worker, I feel this song

  • @grzesiekszewczuk1741
    @grzesiekszewczuk1741 Před 11 dny

    I have been working for years. Factories construction. My edvaice for young people who will start work don t skip from job to job often no matter how hard work is. Don t spend all your money invest as much as possible and your life will get easier in time

  • @larsmaresca
    @larsmaresca Před 8 lety +34

    1st May song

  • @bigwallmike
    @bigwallmike Před 9 lety +20

    LABOR
    VINCIT
    OMNIA!

  • @EvilMadBombr
    @EvilMadBombr Před 2 měsíci

    The average CEO-to-worker pay ratio in this group was 603 to 1. Similarly, data from the Economic Policy Institute found wage disparity has significantly increased over time: CEOs were paid 344 times as much as a typical worker in 2022, up from an average pay ratio of 21 to 1 in 1965. But, you know....SHAREHOLDER VALUE!!!!

  • @isaiahbasaldua924
    @isaiahbasaldua924 Před 2 lety +2

    long live the working class power to the union. The time is coming and the cry for revolution is upon us.The call for unions and union pay is now. We build everything yet we suffer. Stand tall my friends in the end our class will have the last word. And that word will be liberation and solidarity forever

  • @ulfbertamon3776
    @ulfbertamon3776 Před 5 lety +16

    Song for me yeahhhh.hard work. I m ready drink a beer and fight

    • @MaximusWolfe
      @MaximusWolfe Před 4 lety

      You are softer than an over boiled noodle.

  • @kennydavison07
    @kennydavison07 Před 10 měsíci +1

    Great song written by Ed Pickford from the North East of England.

  • @klown13420
    @klown13420 Před 3 lety +7

    Non union but bust my ass to make sure my family is taken care off this song speaks to me

    • @theggfloupin4084
      @theggfloupin4084 Před 2 lety +4

      If you had the opportunity, would you like to be in one?

    • @TheTriptamineDream
      @TheTriptamineDream Před 2 lety +1

      I am organizing one right now

    • @adamdean5881
      @adamdean5881 Před rokem

      Modern day unions just suck the boss's dick and collect dues

    • @nintendofan1749
      @nintendofan1749 Před rokem

      @@adamdean5881
      Yeah
      And we wonder why union membership is so low today

  • @zoeycasa6497
    @zoeycasa6497 Před rokem

    Fantastic song!

  • @wrifraff
    @wrifraff Před 9 měsíci

    Appreciate the solidarity with the UAW guys!

  • @artemis_smith
    @artemis_smith Před rokem +2

    Our day will come soon.

  • @ajfarr8481
    @ajfarr8481 Před rokem +2

    Ironically this should be the anthem of the Labour Party...

  • @padila176
    @padila176 Před 2 lety +2

    2021 going back to 1880s

  • @ulfbertamon3776
    @ulfbertamon3776 Před 5 lety +8

    Up for hard workers

  • @gustisatrio3528
    @gustisatrio3528 Před 4 lety +4

    I'm in ..

  • @michaelstramm2366
    @michaelstramm2366 Před 2 lety

    Seems like the Epitaph of my live, but what the hell, we walked so many streets saw so many things in all of these years past, and our flag never got down, so with this tune in our heard we go on. Good song

  • @brettsix2027
    @brettsix2027 Před 3 měsíci

    ☘️ Happy St. Patrick’s Day to my fellow blue collars!

    • @jackgardner2514
      @jackgardner2514 Před 3 měsíci +1

      And if you're a worker and vote for Trump you're a scab

  • @spencercojo3313
    @spencercojo3313 Před 8 lety +4

    we're the first one to carry the gun

  • @JohnFromTheSwan
    @JohnFromTheSwan Před 4 lety +8

    As true and poignant now as it ever was

  • @spencercojo3313
    @spencercojo3313 Před 8 lety +1

    "the first one, were in line fo

  • @tomherr5684
    @tomherr5684 Před 2 lety +1

    Proud Union Carpenter Agrees! Lol 👍

  • @Thunorwine1
    @Thunorwine1 Před 3 lety +6

    turn the guns around-mutiny!

    • @IsraelDaGoat
      @IsraelDaGoat Před 3 lety +1

      Now that's an idea I can get behind

  • @johnhorne2012
    @johnhorne2012 Před 3 lety

    OUTFUCKINGSTANDING!..................SCOT IRISH heeeeeeyah!.............STAY THE COURSE!......DO YOUR BEST LADS!..................FUCKIN AY!

  • @user-iz7ji2id7j
    @user-iz7ji2id7j Před 7 měsíci

    They should have played this in Mlp Equestria Girls Legend Of Everfree

  • @antoniofassone7661
    @antoniofassone7661 Před 4 lety

    to ritchie

  • @MrVasari2
    @MrVasari2 Před 5 lety +3

    заебись

  • @ElecTrafo
    @ElecTrafo Před 9 lety +1

    Ne güzelmiş lan bu ^^

  • @user-qq2cu7rk7g
    @user-qq2cu7rk7g Před 3 lety

    Читаю коментарии.как другая планета😁

  • @galihdwisaputra2290
    @galihdwisaputra2290 Před 5 lety +1

    Bang gofar hilman membawaku kesini

    • @liasafira6442
      @liasafira6442 Před 4 lety

      Baguslah.. salam kenal.. lagu kesukaan ku pas jaman kuliah 2007

  • @freddiemiranda5366
    @freddiemiranda5366 Před 3 měsíci

    Amerca is the working class ,so don't you all forget it 👍☘️💙🇺🇲...!

  • @IgnarHusky
    @IgnarHusky Před 9 měsíci +2

    SOLIDARIRY TO THE UAW!!!

  • @palerider3178
    @palerider3178 Před 2 lety

    I'm looking for the song about riding an atomic motorcar down I 95 and the algorithm ain't giving me shit can someone help?

  • @aleksandarduras5475
    @aleksandarduras5475 Před 2 lety

    OI, OI, OI 💪🦾👊🤝🤜🤛🖕👍!!!

  • @jerryjanik480
    @jerryjanik480 Před 3 měsíci

    Charles Doyle was my great-great-uncle he was kicked out of the United States the 1980s he was voted the most hated Man by newspaper owned by Rupert Murdoch his sister who would be my great-grandmother her husband's relative was Bobby Sands

  • @luhanphiluc
    @luhanphiluc Před 4 lety +16

    This one shall be the good national anthem for the U.S.S.A: United Socialist States of America.

    • @jsamuel251
      @jsamuel251 Před 4 lety +1

      Fascism will win

    • @carloalbertoluglio7842
      @carloalbertoluglio7842 Před 4 lety

      If there was a heart reaction I would give it

    • @kingsleywarne2985
      @kingsleywarne2985 Před 4 lety +3

      Bernie takes nevada!

    • @the_beast183
      @the_beast183 Před 4 lety +1

      Fucking great place that would be... hopefully a place that will become a reality, and not stay confined to our dreams.

    • @primroseburrows
      @primroseburrows Před 4 lety +5

      When this is our national anthem I will officially be proud to be American.

  • @user-rz9vp5yg9y
    @user-rz9vp5yg9y Před rokem

    たまらんなぁ

    • @Mega_Mikey
      @Mega_Mikey Před rokem +2

      歌詞を読んでください。

  • @japaniranboy
    @japaniranboy Před rokem +1

    i can imagine how Carl Marx will headbanging after hearing this song 🤘

  • @r.u.s.e3586
    @r.u.s.e3586 Před 4 lety +18

    I love this song. As a person who has lived dirt poor I get what this song is saying (my gosh do I get it)
    But that doesn't mean that communism is the way to go. It just means that you shouldn't give someone unlimited power over others. I think that's what this song is about.

    • @rinobisesto3705
      @rinobisesto3705 Před 4 lety +1

      Why not? 🙂

    • @r.u.s.e3586
      @r.u.s.e3586 Před 4 lety +3

      @@rinobisesto3705 Because looking back at history Communism has killed a *lot* of people.

    • @rinobisesto3705
      @rinobisesto3705 Před 4 lety +11

      @@r.u.s.e3586 not communism, totalitarism

    • @r.u.s.e3586
      @r.u.s.e3586 Před 4 lety +3

      @@rinobisesto3705 Umm. They are the same thing?

    • @rinobisesto3705
      @rinobisesto3705 Před 4 lety +6

      @@r.u.s.e3586 don't think so

  • @noneofyourbusiness43
    @noneofyourbusiness43 Před 4 lety +12

    Love the song, hate the socialists

    • @kingsleywarne2985
      @kingsleywarne2985 Před 4 lety +31

      So you hate everything the song is about?

    • @jagerisbae6481
      @jagerisbae6481 Před 4 lety +34

      Without socialists you'd still have been in mines before you were even an adult. Remember that.

    • @reverendrico5631
      @reverendrico5631 Před 4 lety +1

      Jäger is bae sure buddy, keep telling yourself that. I’ll be with the capitalists that keep hooking new lands into the modern world.

    • @jagerisbae6481
      @jagerisbae6481 Před 4 lety +21

      @@reverendrico5631 So how'd they taste? Were they Merrells or Timberlands?

    • @MaximusWolfe
      @MaximusWolfe Před 4 lety +1

      I hate both

  • @anonymoususer7612
    @anonymoususer7612 Před 2 lety +2

    Proud capitalist factory worker, USA USA USA

    • @Purpleh4ze404
      @Purpleh4ze404 Před rokem +8

      You aren’t a capitalist, you merely support capitalism, to be a capitalist you have to own capital.. and as a factory worker, you work for capital..

    • @anonymoususer7612
      @anonymoususer7612 Před rokem +1

      @@Purpleh4ze404 Lmao boi you don't know what I own, and also look up the definition of capitalist
      1. A supporter of capitalism.

    • @Purpleh4ze404
      @Purpleh4ze404 Před rokem +2

      @@anonymoususer7612 you dont own much if youre working at a factory, still working class still licking boots... its nothing to be ashamed of but you can't say youre a capitalist as you've never seen more than a million in your life

    • @Purpleh4ze404
      @Purpleh4ze404 Před rokem +5

      @@anonymoususer7612 also i dare you to look up the definition of capitalist xD cause im looking at it right now and i can say to you that you wont like it lololololol

    • @anonymoususer7612
      @anonymoususer7612 Před rokem

      @@Purpleh4ze404 lol I already did

  • @jacobpottala
    @jacobpottala Před 6 měsíci

    Change the word "worker" out for White Man, and you have yourself a message.

  • @MaximusWolfe
    @MaximusWolfe Před 4 lety +3

    After that first album this band became sesame street corny and impossible to like. This song blows.