This should have been the end credit song for "Dirty Jobs" Seeing as how both of these are tributes to the people who both make this country run and make it great, it just seems kind of natural.
I was a factory worker for a while, and this song really makes me proud of that. The people this song is about are not appreciated enough for what they do for our country to keep it going.
My dad told me that if it wasn't for the blue collar worker the white collar worker wouldn't have a dime in his pocket ... I hate NAFTA, greedy politians & the tradier americans who closed up steel mills, wherehouses & factories and shipped American jobs overseas for slave labor to make more money.
America wants those jobs BACK !!!!
Thanks Alabama band, for never forgetting who build this great nation... hard working blue collar Americans.
As a Bostonian, i can't help but think about the college professors in this area who work a 20 hour week yet put down the average folk who work a 40 hour week!
i remanufacture train wheels . yeah it sounds odd but without the trains we would loose alot . thank you everyone that plays a part in our every day lives
@MonkeyLemos Damn straight. A machine doesn't take so much pride in it's work that it takes extra time to notice the little things, nor does it have the spirit that us blue-collar workers have!
I got a question why dont they play this in restraunts, local grocery stores or at the bank or even at the welfare office or in the court where people gather isn't this what alabama is doing thanking us for working 40 hours a week makng it happen and passing it down the line????? Indiana hears you Alabama
Before 1980, we had a perfectly good system. You could still get rich despite higher tax brackets and small business percentage of total was a lot higher than it is today.
Then came the myth of Ronald Reagan. Don't flag me down, here, because I am simply recalling history. This is ONLY what happened.
Republicans started union busting. They opened up trickle down economics. What we had before worked perfectly well, but they said it would help America.
When I was growing up, I thought this song was stupid.
Now I am so sad. I see this song was about all that is good in America.
It's not hard to see (with the exception of NAFTA under Bill Clinton) that Republicans killed America starting around 1980 by changing the legal framework that companies are allowed to do business in.
Can you feel it? Today, this place is hollow. The pigs have sucked the marrow right out.
Until ALL Americans force a look at our trade policies, we're fucked. FUCKED.
i work in auto detail. You buy i used car well I was the one that cleaned it. Thank you to all you picky ass holes that pick out what I missed. You should seen the car as it was when I started on it.
I was at this 40 hour week tour in the Houston Astrodome in the early '70s . Every time I hear this song I get chills. Oh, and I got the Alabama T-Shirt.
Men and Women getting up and going to work. That is what made this country. Sweat. The equity in that is your freedom. It is worth fighting f or and we pay people a modest salary to do that too. Get on your knees tonight and thank God we have them. Policeman, Fireman, the carpenter, the doctor or dentist, the truck driver, the office IT guy, the baker, the janitor, the accountant, black, white, Mexican, Asian, Indian, whatever...we are America. We get up and go to work in freedom. Go USA!
It's odd, isn't it. Despite all the labour-saving new technology - robot factories and computers - and women now having virtually doubled the work force, we are working not fewer hours, as we were promised, but more hours not only more but having to work more productively, grinding ourselves into the ground 'multi-tasking' and 'working under pressure' just to earn a living. And nobody ever asks why.
@sonrouge Yes, yes. We're doing more work in less time. What once took a man four hours to do, he can now do in one hour (on average, across the board). Further, women are now working full-time as well as men. So the number of hours of labour done each day by society as a whole has...what? Multiplied eight or ten fold? Yet still we have no more leisure time than we had before! THAT is what is odd.
@archdeaconj both the man and the woman have to work in order to pay the taxes imposed on us by our socialist government that believes (which I heard Obama say last night) that those who are fortunate owe to those who aren't. We don't owe anyone anything, and the belief that someone owes someone else will only make the prison population increase.
@ajd1211 I don't think you have understood the problem. Not so long ago (say in the 1950s or 1960s) only men worked full-time. Then women entered the workplace, doubling the workforce. You'd expect everyone to then work half a day only. This did not happen. The promise of new technology was again that we would work fewer hours. It didn't happen. Why? This phenomenon is independent of what kind of government is in power. Anyway, how can redistribution of wealth be an explanation?
This song was made when america was america, I dont know what to call our country anymore. I am only 26 years old, and even I have seen the change. I dont like where things are going. I dont grew up in a small town where the little man meant everything that was america. Thanks wal mart and big goverment. You have F*@ked us all over.
You know, when you say stuff like that, you make everyone look like morons that are left in the 1700's. I hope you realize that there are black soldiers in our military who defend your right to write that stuff. I guess that doesn't make you any different than the hippies that spit on soldiers returning home.
I said it because it was fact (about no blacks in the video.) That foolish remark you made should be directed to Alabama's record company or marketing management.
Good comment mondragoneg. Next time direct it to the right person/people.
FYI- This IS an Alabama thread and your Liberal overtones aren't welcome here.
@TheIndianDoctor If you were talkin to me im not from dixie you ignorant hillbilly. I'm lucky enough not to be raised a racist like you and you friends. So you can kiss my ass. Thank you and have a good day
Here in Dixie, it is understood that the Civil War really isn't over. It is ironic, or more accurately, moronic, to believe you don't read the papers and acknowledge this (based on your rude statement to us.)
There are two types of people in this world forgs2009: Racists, and racists that DENY they are racists.
YOU are one or the other. Come to Dixie; take your country back. There's good white people here and freindly folk.
Well, I'm not mentioned, but I was unknown then. I run an ISP, I keep my part of rural America connected to the internet. Just a small business, two guys in jeans and working shirts, and we work any time of day or night, to keep em all online.
While I have respect for workers, I'd like to ask everyone one question; was it workers like these who started all these businesses, or was it the people who used their minds to discover the materials, what they could be used for, and create the processes needed to make them, etc?
all i can say is that i agree with what the others have said here too. the only group of people that should NOT be recognized are the CEO's and other high-level management that greedily take home the multi-million dollar bonuses and stock options or get the "golden parachutes" when leaving said businesses, as the people that should be getting them, aren't, in the form of general wage increases, since those millions could go a long ways to help the common workers instead of management.
So if a person starts out as a lowly worker and works his way up to becoming a CEO/high level manager (like Chris Gardner), they are automaticaly evil?
This is a great song, I work for US Steel, next week some of us wil be laid off. The ripple effect of the big 3 has been devistating for the steel industry. Hopefully things get better.
I just want to say Thank You to the John and Jane Doe of America. The ones who still have that twinkle of the American dream in their eyes and dream of getting there thru actually doing some work. Not the ones whom all they do is scam others, but the ones who actually do hard labor to keep this country the way it is. God Bless them
My Father has been a Police Officer for 30+ years and my mother used to work for a company that made baby clothing for a good chunk of her life.
I would to thank everyone who works to keep this country moving, the big rig drivers, wheat farmers and many more. I am proud to be in Law Enforcement and it is nice to be recognized for the work that we do. dodging bullets, settling fights isn't the easiest job in the world, neither is the agriculture world and many many other walks of life. thank you Alabama you go group
Thanks to all of those serving to save our way of life! This here garbageman says, "Semper Fi!", "Hoo-ah!", and anything else that I can say with the utmost intent of respect and love! Thanks again, and God Bless You!!!
This is another great song...my grandmother used to talk about how she'd get up early, milk cows, work in the field, go to school (when it wasn't harvest), come home, back in the field, bed and then do it again.
this one of my favorite songs! they should bring the oldies back there the best. if your looken for some more good old some CONVOY and FEED JAKE. are good ones
I'm a dishwasher at an Italian resturaunt, a volunteer firefighter, and one day I hope to become a paid firefighter. Not the most glamerous jobs in the world, but you know what...just like with the men and women in the video, they're good enough for me.
@GreenNismo I detail cars for a dealership and clean them for delivery when people buy them. They love how the car looks and are so happy, once in a while I get to see that. Most times I just in the back of the shop doing what I do.
its sad the kids today are not taught to earn money and work hard.my parents told me if you want stuff you have to work and earn it.
MERRILL718 2 months ago 2
im a factory worker just gettin btween 30 -35 hrs
whitescion64 2 months ago
Filmed at my old house. Love when they use Santa Paula California as the midwest. The same train station is also in Joe Dirt.
Fupaforlife 3 months ago
i work 65 hrs a week and stil live under the poverity line dam
bogcjg 4 months ago 2
@bogcjg God bless you and yours in these tough times.
1989rdl 3 months ago
This should have been the end credit song for "Dirty Jobs" Seeing as how both of these are tributes to the people who both make this country run and make it great, it just seems kind of natural.
I was a factory worker for a while, and this song really makes me proud of that. The people this song is about are not appreciated enough for what they do for our country to keep it going.
millenniumf1138 4 months ago 2
Im the waitress and my husband is the mechanic :)
angelav420 5 months ago
My dad told me that if it wasn't for the blue collar worker the white collar worker wouldn't have a dime in his pocket ... I hate NAFTA, greedy politians & the tradier americans who closed up steel mills, wherehouses & factories and shipped American jobs overseas for slave labor to make more money.
America wants those jobs BACK !!!!
Thanks Alabama band, for never forgetting who build this great nation... hard working blue collar Americans.
cmammlj 6 months ago 2
As a Bostonian, i can't help but think about the college professors in this area who work a 20 hour week yet put down the average folk who work a 40 hour week!
Glennyco 6 months ago
"...the policeman on patrol" makes me proud to hear that. I love my job
discosuitDan 7 months ago
yes it is a classic but with out forklift operators nothing in this country will be able to opperate. that is my role. im a fork lift operator.
silentknigh716 7 months ago in playlist steve
i remanufacture train wheels . yeah it sounds odd but without the trains we would loose alot . thank you everyone that plays a part in our every day lives
lathamra98 7 months ago
Classic
easy1676 8 months ago
Forget what modern Nashville puts out talking about the hardships of workin, this is the true song of America and Americans.
texascountryboy72 8 months ago
Wow at the 80s! Makes you proud though :)
kirky29 9 months ago
this song is for the people who work not for the people who are capable to work but go on welfare
TheMiner23 9 months ago
My husband works in the auto industry and this song is dedicated to him!!!
patback97 10 months ago
My favorite part of this song is when the singer sing with no machines, only flush and bood.
MonkeyLemos 1 year ago
@MonkeyLemos Damn straight. A machine doesn't take so much pride in it's work that it takes extra time to notice the little things, nor does it have the spirit that us blue-collar workers have!
Anaheimfan 1 year ago 2
Thanks to everyone who works that 40 hour week..HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!!
Musicfanforever1000 1 year ago
Whatever will Alabama dream of next?
1f5sda 1 year ago
I got a question why dont they play this in restraunts, local grocery stores or at the bank or even at the welfare office or in the court where people gather isn't this what alabama is doing thanking us for working 40 hours a week makng it happen and passing it down the line????? Indiana hears you Alabama
whtestalln8787 1 year ago 2
Thanks to all who work that 40 hour week..HAPPY LABOR DAY
amandamarieboudreaux 1 year ago 3
Pound it home guys... Did Reaganomics, trickle-down, supply side or whatever you want to call it... did it help us or hurt us???
The argument goes that it's those with the money that create the jobs. I say BULLSHIT.
Work creates wealth, NOT the other way around.
We allowed Republicans to change the legal framework in such a way that is bad for America's middle class.
It's all around you. The proof is everywhere. Just listen to Republicans. Watch the issues. Republicans are not on your side!
LAUGHATREPUBLICANS 1 year ago 4
Our trade policies are the issue.
Before 1980, we had a perfectly good system. You could still get rich despite higher tax brackets and small business percentage of total was a lot higher than it is today.
Then came the myth of Ronald Reagan. Don't flag me down, here, because I am simply recalling history. This is ONLY what happened.
Republicans started union busting. They opened up trickle down economics. What we had before worked perfectly well, but they said it would help America.
Did it?
LAUGHATREPUBLICANS 1 year ago
When I was growing up, I thought this song was stupid.
Now I am so sad. I see this song was about all that is good in America.
It's not hard to see (with the exception of NAFTA under Bill Clinton) that Republicans killed America starting around 1980 by changing the legal framework that companies are allowed to do business in.
Can you feel it? Today, this place is hollow. The pigs have sucked the marrow right out.
Until ALL Americans force a look at our trade policies, we're fucked. FUCKED.
LAUGHATREPUBLICANS 1 year ago
i work in auto detail. You buy i used car well I was the one that cleaned it. Thank you to all you picky ass holes that pick out what I missed. You should seen the car as it was when I started on it.
durandwis 1 year ago 2
@durandwis Funny!!
MySnaz 1 year ago
I was at this 40 hour week tour in the Houston Astrodome in the early '70s . Every time I hear this song I get chills. Oh, and I got the Alabama T-Shirt.
dallasfats 1 year ago
Men and Women getting up and going to work. That is what made this country. Sweat. The equity in that is your freedom. It is worth fighting f or and we pay people a modest salary to do that too. Get on your knees tonight and thank God we have them. Policeman, Fireman, the carpenter, the doctor or dentist, the truck driver, the office IT guy, the baker, the janitor, the accountant, black, white, Mexican, Asian, Indian, whatever...we are America. We get up and go to work in freedom. Go USA!
3338MAN 1 year ago 4
I love the part of the song , this is for the ones that drive the big rigs,.
otisloghauler1 1 year ago 2
It's odd, isn't it. Despite all the labour-saving new technology - robot factories and computers - and women now having virtually doubled the work force, we are working not fewer hours, as we were promised, but more hours not only more but having to work more productively, grinding ourselves into the ground 'multi-tasking' and 'working under pressure' just to earn a living. And nobody ever asks why.
archdeaconj 2 years ago
But we're doing more work in less time, leaving us time to devote to something else. That's what labour-saving technology provides us.
sonrouge 1 year ago
@sonrouge Yes, yes. We're doing more work in less time. What once took a man four hours to do, he can now do in one hour (on average, across the board). Further, women are now working full-time as well as men. So the number of hours of labour done each day by society as a whole has...what? Multiplied eight or ten fold? Yet still we have no more leisure time than we had before! THAT is what is odd.
archdeaconj 1 year ago
@archdeaconj both the man and the woman have to work in order to pay the taxes imposed on us by our socialist government that believes (which I heard Obama say last night) that those who are fortunate owe to those who aren't. We don't owe anyone anything, and the belief that someone owes someone else will only make the prison population increase.
ajd1211 1 year ago
@ajd1211 I don't think you have understood the problem. Not so long ago (say in the 1950s or 1960s) only men worked full-time. Then women entered the workplace, doubling the workforce. You'd expect everyone to then work half a day only. This did not happen. The promise of new technology was again that we would work fewer hours. It didn't happen. Why? This phenomenon is independent of what kind of government is in power. Anyway, how can redistribution of wealth be an explanation?
archdeaconj 1 year ago
Alabama is a great band and this is a great song!!
MySnaz 2 years ago
One of my favorite songs by these guys. God Bless!
usnren 2 years ago
This song says it all....I am an HVAC service tech.
CuyahogaJoe 2 years ago
This song was made when america was america, I dont know what to call our country anymore. I am only 26 years old, and even I have seen the change. I dont like where things are going. I dont grew up in a small town where the little man meant everything that was america. Thanks wal mart and big goverment. You have F*@ked us all over.
durandwis 2 years ago 3
@durandwis ..glad someone said it,
CuyahogaJoe 2 years ago
No black people in this video... I love it! Go Dixie!
WE won't lose next time.
krsongs 2 years ago
You know, when you say stuff like that, you make everyone look like morons that are left in the 1700's. I hope you realize that there are black soldiers in our military who defend your right to write that stuff. I guess that doesn't make you any different than the hippies that spit on soldiers returning home.
mondragoneg 2 years ago
@mondragoneg
I said it because it was fact (about no blacks in the video.) That foolish remark you made should be directed to Alabama's record company or marketing management.
Good comment mondragoneg. Next time direct it to the right person/people.
FYI- This IS an Alabama thread and your Liberal overtones aren't welcome here.
Please do not respond to this message.
krsongs 2 years ago
No you said it because you're a dumb racist and are not smart enough to join the rest of us in the 21st century
forgs2009 2 years ago
Was that comment directed to me?
krsongs 2 years ago
No person from Dixie would ever say what you just said.
Leave this thread, and do not repsond to this post.
TheIndianDoctor 1 year ago
@TheIndianDoctor If you were talkin to me im not from dixie you ignorant hillbilly. I'm lucky enough not to be raised a racist like you and you friends. So you can kiss my ass. Thank you and have a good day
forgs2009 1 year ago
@forgs2009
Here in Dixie, it is understood that the Civil War really isn't over. It is ironic, or more accurately, moronic, to believe you don't read the papers and acknowledge this (based on your rude statement to us.)
There are two types of people in this world forgs2009: Racists, and racists that DENY they are racists.
YOU are one or the other. Come to Dixie; take your country back. There's good white people here and freindly folk.
Are you black by the way?
TheIndianDoctor 1 year ago
Craig Morgan's That's what I love about Sunday is a fine song also. :)
paidwithcash 2 years ago
I know. Everywhere is getting the shaft..I've never been so screwed over when it comes to layoffs as I've been when democrats were president.
godsfiddler 2 years ago
Well, I'm not mentioned, but I was unknown then. I run an ISP, I keep my part of rural America connected to the internet. Just a small business, two guys in jeans and working shirts, and we work any time of day or night, to keep em all online.
65crewcabpw 2 years ago
Sonrage obviously not since the Detroit auto comapnies are about to go out of buisness because of the people that so called use there minds!
Lids1315battery I feel for ya I'm a Detroit auto worker who recently lost his job keep you head up.
rickthick4u 2 years ago
Thank our military, they work a 168 hour week.
redshirt14 2 years ago 2
The full timers do, yes. The part timers, no, but they deserve just as much thanks, cuz they work civilian jobs as well.
godsfiddler 2 years ago
While I have respect for workers, I'd like to ask everyone one question; was it workers like these who started all these businesses, or was it the people who used their minds to discover the materials, what they could be used for, and create the processes needed to make them, etc?
sonrouge 2 years ago
Many of those that did and still do the discovering, inventing, etc are low wage employees.
godsfiddler 2 years ago
Sometimes, but not always.
sonrouge 2 years ago
all i can say is that i agree with what the others have said here too. the only group of people that should NOT be recognized are the CEO's and other high-level management that greedily take home the multi-million dollar bonuses and stock options or get the "golden parachutes" when leaving said businesses, as the people that should be getting them, aren't, in the form of general wage increases, since those millions could go a long ways to help the common workers instead of management.
pacnorthwesterner 2 years ago
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Indeed FUCK ALL THEM JEWS!!!! They are worthless and think they are the bees knees when in reality they are crap!
trboy420 2 years ago
Most of the incompetant CEOs are gentiles, you schmuck!!!
bigbadnewman 2 years ago
So if a person starts out as a lowly worker and works his way up to becoming a CEO/high level manager (like Chris Gardner), they are automaticaly evil?
sonrouge 2 years ago
Not all of them are bad. I worked for a few that were great, and really praised us on the bottom end, gave us good bonuses, public recognition, etc.
godsfiddler 2 years ago
I love this video the American Worker keeps the country moving.
adamkswartz 2 years ago
God bless the 40-Hour Worker and all the "Blue Collar Workers" who make the USA the best in the WORLD!
This is one of my favorite songs by Alabama as it I think it truly represents the people who make Country and THIS Country great!
Thanks for posting a tribute to why America rules.
HansieDZ 2 years ago 11
coolgyger,
You are so very right. I was beginning to think that there wasn't many of us left.
rackasaurus 3 years ago 2
This is a great song, I work for US Steel, next week some of us wil be laid off. The ripple effect of the big 3 has been devistating for the steel industry. Hopefully things get better.
lids1315battery 3 years ago
I just want to say Thank You to the John and Jane Doe of America. The ones who still have that twinkle of the American dream in their eyes and dream of getting there thru actually doing some work. Not the ones whom all they do is scam others, but the ones who actually do hard labor to keep this country the way it is. God Bless them
My Father has been a Police Officer for 30+ years and my mother used to work for a company that made baby clothing for a good chunk of her life.
coolgyger 3 years ago 3
A classic lives on! Thank you America and Alabama.
GoldRushDutch 3 years ago 3
I am the mother of an AK Steelmill worker, and the granddaughter of a WV coalminer. Also an Army brat whose father was a Major in the 82nd Airborne.
Needless to say...I am so proud!
Jamwitholdies 3 years ago 12
I would to thank everyone who works to keep this country moving, the big rig drivers, wheat farmers and many more. I am proud to be in Law Enforcement and it is nice to be recognized for the work that we do. dodging bullets, settling fights isn't the easiest job in the world, neither is the agriculture world and many many other walks of life. thank you Alabama you go group
blueryan07 3 years ago 30
Brillinat! O__O
Modeltrainguy 3 years ago 6
I'm proud to be a Kansas wheatfield farmer. I thank all those that work behind the scenes so we can keep going every year.
CRcombine 3 years ago 7
just curious, where are you in kansas?
kwswan 3 years ago 5
Around Chanute\Earlton
CRcombine 3 years ago 4
Thanks to all of those serving to save our way of life! This here garbageman says, "Semper Fi!", "Hoo-ah!", and anything else that I can say with the utmost intent of respect and love! Thanks again, and God Bless You!!!
jeep1234567890 3 years ago 5
Lets hear it for those working 168 hour (24 x 7 = 168) weeks in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Longtrangdukich 3 years ago 39
Pittsburgh steelmill worker enough said
Johnsnyder666 3 years ago 7
i love this song
usarmy115511 3 years ago 5
This is another great song...my grandmother used to talk about how she'd get up early, milk cows, work in the field, go to school (when it wasn't harvest), come home, back in the field, bed and then do it again.
KassidyKatherine 3 years ago 3
this is what America is all about
dont forget about our soildures im USMC myself
I love this country!!!
God Bless
ZackGOAT4 3 years ago 4
the best song alabama ever did for all the people that make this country what it is
littlezx2 3 years ago
this one of my favorite songs! they should bring the oldies back there the best. if your looken for some more good old some CONVOY and FEED JAKE. are good ones
millicentaustin 4 years ago 2
I'm a dishwasher at an Italian resturaunt, a volunteer firefighter, and one day I hope to become a paid firefighter. Not the most glamerous jobs in the world, but you know what...just like with the men and women in the video, they're good enough for me.
sonrouge 4 years ago 2
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this song kicks ass
01221612 4 years ago
Had this album and song as a kid. Never saw the video until now. Thanks for posting!
eightiespike 4 years ago
Video brings back lots of memories, my mom had the VHS that had this video and several others and i would watch it all the time. :)
Tweedle104 4 years ago
I'm a lube tech at a dealership, and the "Hello Detroit Auto Worker" part is my ringtone. kinda makes me appreciate my job a little more
GreenNismo 4 years ago 14
of course..this is a tribute for people like you who give their soul to make a better life for all.
Neoeternauta 4 years ago 5
@GreenNismo I detail cars for a dealership and clean them for delivery when people buy them. They love how the car looks and are so happy, once in a while I get to see that. Most times I just in the back of the shop doing what I do.
durandwis 8 months ago
@GreenNismo
My dad retired from Ford. When they said, Hello Detroit Auto worker, I thought they were ONLY talking about my dad growing up lol.
mommy2dj 6 months ago
dispite the age of this song this is 1 good video
dmadalton 4 years ago
This song brings me back to my childhood.
bookgurl2 4 years ago 2
cool! most be fun to rethink your child hood! i love this song. its one of the best along with convoy., and feed jake.
millicentaustin 4 years ago
cool! most be fun to rethink your child hood! i love this song. its one of the best along with convoy., and feed jake.
millicentaustin 4 years ago