Songs about occupations

"Taxman" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1966 album Revolver. Written by the group's lead guitarist, George Harrison, with some lyrical assistance from John Lennon, it protests against the higher level of progressive tax imposed in the United Kingdom by the Labour government of Harold Wilson, which saw the Beatles paying over 90 per cent of their earnings to the Treasury. The song was selected as the album's opening track and contributed to Harrison's emergence as a songwriter beside the dominant Lennon–McCartney partnership. It was the group's first topical song and

Russian folksong

original song written and composed by Robert Bateman, Freddie Gorman, Brian Holland

1987 song by Vanessa Paradis

Viennese worker's song

Monty Python sketch

song written and composed by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus; originally recorded by ABBA and released in 1973

original song written and composed by Tim Hardin; first released by Bobby Darin

song by Gilbert Bécaud

original song written and composed by Jimmy Webb; first recorded by Glenn Campbell

"Primaballerina" (from Italian for "first ballerina" – the second highest female ballet dancer) is a 1969 song performed in German by Swedish singer Siw Malmkvist and written by Hans Blum. It was the entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1969. Malmkvist was the second of three female Scandinavian schlager artists to represent Germany in the contest in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the first being Norwegian Wenche Myhre in with "Ein Hoch der Liebe" and the third Danish Gitte Hænning with "Junger Tag" in . Malmkvist had previously also represented her native Sweden in the 1960 contest with "All

original song written and composed by Georges Moustaki

single by Pixies

2004 single by Michael Gray

song written and composed by Robert Uhlmann and Ceasar Zamini, originally recorded by Jonny Jakobsen and released in 1998

nursery rhyme