Work Hard
Rise Above: Unveiling the Grit in Starshine Singers' 'Work Hard'
Lyrics
Work hard! Keep right on working!
Encouragement to work hard and persist in labor.
Work hard to earn a crust.
Emphasis on working hard to earn a living.
Work hard! Keep right on working!
Reiteration of the need to continue working diligently.
Our brothers are starving
Highlighting the plight of brothers facing hunger.
And they need to be fed.
Expressing the urgency to provide food for those in need.
You’ll get no pay until your work is finished.
Stating that payment is contingent on completing the work.
You’ll get no pay until it’s late and dark.
Delay in payment, suggesting challenging working conditions.
You’ll get no pay until your day has ended.
No compensation until the end of the workday.
This ain’t a walk in the park!
Emphasizing the difficulty of the work, not a leisurely task.
Light the fire, scrub the floor.
Describing household chores and tasks that demand effort.
Never ending kitchen chores!
Portraying never-ending responsibilities in the kitchen.
Wash and mangle, dry and rack.
Depicting the process of washing and cleaning.
Make the beds and break your back!
Linking housework with physical strain and hard labor.
Deep in the mines we work all day.
Describing the demanding conditions of working in mines.
Down in the dark for little pay.
Highlighting low wages for strenuous underground work.
Under the ground we sweat and slave
Emphasizing the toil and suffering beneath the ground.
Working ourselves into the grave.
Expressing the severity of work leading to a grim fate.
Climb, climb, got to climb to the roof top.
Depicting the physical effort required to reach the rooftop.
Sweep, sweep, got to sweep ’til we all drop.
Illustrating the exhausting nature of continuous sweeping.
Work hard! Keep right on working!
Reiteration of the call to work hard and persist.
Work hard, to earn a crust.
Re-emphasizing the need to work hard for sustenance.
Work hard! Keep right on working!
Continuing the call for persistent and diligent work.
Our sisters are starving and they need to be fed.
Pointing out the hunger of sisters and the urgency to feed them.
Scrub, dig, sweep. Scrub, dig, sweep.
Repetitive description of the cyclical nature of labor.
Scrub, dig, sweep. Scrub, dig, sweep.
-Scrub, dig, sweep. Scrub, dig, sweep.
-Scrub, dig, sweep. Scrub, dig, sweep.
-All day, all day. All day, all day. All day, all day.
Further repetition emphasizing the continuous nature of work throughout the day.
All day, all day. All day, all day. All day, all day.
-All day, all day.
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