Forty Hour Week (For a Livin')
ALABAMA

There are people in this country who work hard every day

Not for fame or fortune do they strive

But the fruits of their labor are worth more than their pay

And it's time a few of them were recognized


Hello Detroit auto workers, let me thank you for your time

You work a forty hour week for a livin' just to send it on down the line

Hello Pittsburgh steel mill workers, let me thank you for your time

You work a forty hour week for a livin', a-just to send it on down the line


This is for the one who swings the hammer, driving home the nail

Or the one behind the counter, ringing up the sale

Or the one who fights the fires, the one who brings the mail

For everyone who works behind the scenes


You can see them every morning in the factories and the fields

In the city streets and the quiet country towns

Working together like spokes inside a wheel

They keep this country turning around


Hello Kansas wheat field farmer, let me thank you for your time

You work a forty hour week for a livin',a-just to send it on down the line

Hello West Virginia coal miner, let me thank you for your time

You work a forty hour week for a livin', just to send it on down the line


This is for the one who drives the big rig, up and down the road

Or the one out in the warehouse, bringing in the load

Or the waitress, the mechanic, the policeman on patrol

For everyone who works behind the scenes


With a spirit you can't replace with no machine

Hello America let me thank you for your time


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  'Ole' Baugh Road   "Ole" Baugh Road   "You've Got" the Touch   (she Won't Have A Thing To Do With) Nobody But Me   (She Won't Have A Thing To Do With) Nobody Like Me   (There's A) Fire in the Night   40 Hour Week   40 Hour Week (For a Livin')   A Better Word For Love   A Better World for Love [*]   A Candle In The Window   A Very Special Love   Alabama Sky   All American   Amazing Grace   American Farmer   American Pride   Angels Among Us   Angels Among Us (Vocal Remix)   Angels Among Us [*]   Angels Among Us [Vocal Remix]   Angles Among Us   Anytime   Anytime (I'm Your Man)   Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way   As Long as There's Love   As Right Now   Back to the Country   Backwoods Boogie   Barefootin'   Barefootin'   Because He Lives   Between The Two Of Them   Borderline   Born Country   Burn Georgia Burn   Burn Georgia Down   Burn, Georgia, Burn   Calling All Angels   Can't Forget About You   Can't Froget About You   Can't Keep A Good Man Down   Can't Keep A Good Man Down 1985   Can't Forget About You   Can't Keep A Good Man Down   Candle in the Window   Carolina Mountain Dew   Carolina Mountain Dewe   Changes Comin' On   Changes Comin' On   Cheap Seats   Christams In Dixie   Christmas in Dixie   Christmas In Your Arms   Christmas Is Love   Christmas Memories   Christmas Shoes   Church In The Wildwood   Clear Across America Tonight   Clear Water Blues   Clear Water Blues [*]   Close Enough To Perfect   Close Enough To Perfect For Me   Closer You Get   Come Find Me   Country Side of Life   Cruisin'   Dancin', Shaggin' On the Boulevard   Dancin', Shaggin' On The Boulevard   Dancing Shagging On The Boulevard   Deep River Woman   Deep River Woman (Alabama w\/Lionel Richie)   Dixie Boy   Dixie Fire   Dixie Land Delight   Dixieland Delight   Dixieland Delight   Down by the Riverside   Down Home   Down On Longboat Key   Down On The River   Down This Road   Drugs or Jesus   Face to Face   Fallin' Again   Fallin' Again   Fantasy   Feels So Right   Feels So Right   Fire In The Night   Fire On Fire   Fireworks   Five O'Clock 500   Five O'clock 500   Food on the Table   Food On The Table (And Shoes On My Feet)   Footstompin' Music   Forever As Far As I'll Go   Forever's As Far As I'll Go   Forever's As Far As I'll Go   Forty Hour Week   Get It While It's Hot   Get It While It's Hot   Getting Over You   Give Me One More Shot   Give Me One More Shot [#]   God Must Have Spent a Little More Time On You   God Must Have Spent a Little More Time on You [*]   Gonna Have a Party   Gonna Have a Party [#]   Goodbye   Goodbye (Kelly's Song)   Green River   Gulf Of Mexico   Hangin' 'Round the Mistletoe   Hangin' 'round The Mistletow   Hangin' Round The Mistletoe   Hangin' Round The Mistletoe   Hanging Up My Travelin' Shoes   Hanging Up My Travelin' Shoes   HanginRound the Mistletoe   Happy Birthday Jesus   Happy Holidays   Hats Off   Hats Off [*]   Heartbreak Express   Here We Are   Hey Baby   High Cotton   Hillbilly Wins the Lotto Money   His Eye Is On The Sparrow   Hollywood   Homecoming Christmas   Homesick Fever   Hometown Honeymoon   Hometown Honeymoon (1993)   How Do You Fall in Love   How Do You Fall in Love [#]   How Great Thou Art   I Ain't Got No Business Doin'   I Ain't Got No Business Doin' Business Today   I Ain't Got No Business Doin'   I Am A Pilgrim   I Am The Man Thomas   I Believe There Are Angels Among Us   I Can't Hide My Heart   I Can't Love You Any Less   I Can't Stop   I Can't Hide My Heart   I Can't Love You Any Less   I Can't Stop   I Got Some Lovin'   I Just Couldn't Say No   I Just Couldn't Say No   I Love You Enough to Let You Go   I Need Thee   I Saw The Time   I Showed Her   I Taught Her Everything She Knows   I Wanna Be There   I Wanna Come Over   I Want To Be With You Tonight   I Want To Know You Before We Make Love   I Was Young Once Too   I Write A Little   I'f You're Gonna Play In Texas (you Gotta Have A F...   I'm In A Hurry   I'm In a Hurry (And Don't Know Why)   I'm In A Hurry (and I Don't Know Why)   I'm In A Hurry And Don't Know   I'm in That Kind of Mood   I'm In The Mood   I'm Not That Way Anymore   I'm Still Dreamin'   I'm Stoned   I've Loved A Lot More Than I've Hurt   I'm In A Hurry   I'm In A Hurry (And Don't Know Why)   I'm In That Kind Of Mood   I'm In The Mood   I'm Not That Way Anymore   I'm Still Dreamin'   I'm Stoned   I've Loved A Lot More Than I've Hurt   If I Could Hear My Mother Pray Again   If I Could Just See You Now   If I Had You   If I Had You 1989   If It Ain't Dixie   If It Ain't Dixie (It Won't Do)   If It Ain't Dixie   If You're Gonna Play In Texas   If You're Gonna Play in Texas (You Gotta Have a Fi...   If You're Gonna Play in Texas (You Gotta Have a Fi...   If You're Gonna Play In Texas   If Your Gonna Play In Texas   In Pictures   In The Garden   In The Sweet By And By   Is That What Time It Is   Is the Magic Still There   Is This How Love Begins   It Works   It's About Time   It's All Comin' Back To Me Now   Jesus Loves Me   Joesph And Mary's Boy   Joseph And Mary's Boy   Joseph And Mary's Boy   Joseph And Mary’s Boy   Jukebox in My Mind   Just A Closer Walk With Thee   Katy Brought My Guitar Back Today   Keep On Dreamin'   Keep On Dreamin'   Keepin' Up   Keepin' Up   Lady Down On Love   Lady Down On Love 1983   Let's All Go Down To The River   Let's Hear It For The Girl   Life's Too Short Love This Fast   Life's Too Short To Love This Fast   Life's Too Short To Love This Fast   Lift Me Up   Little Drummer Boy   Little Things   Lonesome Valley   Louisiana Moon   Louisiana Saturday Night   Love in the First Degree   Love Lifted Me   Love Remains   Love Remains (guest vocals by Christopher Cross)   Love Remains (Mit Christopher Cross)   Love Remains (w/ Christopher Cross)   Lovin' Man   Lovin' You Is Killin' Me   Lovin' Man   Lovin' You Is Killin' Me   Loving You Is Killing Me   Mist of Desire   Moonlight Lounge   Mountain Music   Mountain Music [DVD]   Mountain Music 1982   My Girl   My Home's in Alabama   My Home's In Alabama - Single Edit   My Home's In Alabama   My Love Belongs to You   Never Be One   New Year's Eve 1999   New Year's Eve 1999   New Year’s Eve 1999   No Bad Days   Nothing Comes Close   Nothing Comes Closer   O Little Town Of Bethlehem   Of Course I'm Alright   Of Course I'm Alright   Old (Baugh) Road   Old Flame   Old Man   Old Shep   Ole€™ Baugh Road   On This Side Of The Moon   Once Upon a Lifetime   Once Upon A Lifetime (1993)   One Big Heaven   One Life   One More Time Around   One on One   Pass It On Down   Patches   Pete's Music City   Pete's Music City   Pictures And Memories   Pony Express   Precious Memories   Rain   Reckless   Red River   Red River   Reinvent The Wheel   Richard Petty Fan   Richard Petty Fans   Ride the Train   Right Where I Am   Rock Of Ages   Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree   Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree   Roll On   Roll On .   Roll On (Eighteen Wheeler)   Roll On (Eighteen Wheeler) (Short Version)   Roll On (Eighteen Wheeler) [#]   Sad Lookin' Moon   Sad 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(1994)   T.L.C. A.S.A.P.   T.L.C.A.S.A.P.   Take A Little Trip   Take Me Down   Takin' Care Of Business   Takin' Care Of Business   Tar Top   Tennessee Christmas   Tennessee River   That Feeling   The Blessing   The Blessings   The Borderline   The Boy   The Cheap Seats   The Christmas Spirit   The Closer You Get   The Closer You Get [DVD]   The End of the Lyin'   The End Of The Lyin'   The Fans   The Fans [#]   The Fans [Original Version]   The Little Drummer Boy   The Living Years [#]   The Maker Said Take Her   The Night Before Christmas   The Old Rugged Cross   The Refrain of John Dillon James   The Star Spangled Banner   The Woman He Loves   The Women He Loves   Then Again   Then We Remember   There Are Angels Among Us   There's A Fire In The Night   There's No Way   There's No Way .   There's A Fire In The Night   There's No Way .   This Ain't Just a Song   This Love's On Me   This Loves On Me   Thistlehair The Christmas Bear   Tonight Is Christmas   Too Much Love   Touch Me When We're Dancin   Touch Me When We're Dancing   Tribute To Richard Petty   True, True Housewife   Twentieth Century   Until It Happens To You   Vacation   Vacation [Live][#]   Very Special Love   Wasn't Through Lovin' You Yet   We Can't Love Like This Anymore   We Made Love   What A Friend We Have In Jesus   What In The Name Of Love   What Will I Leave Behind   When It All Goes South   When It All Goes South [*]   When It Comes My Time   When It Comes To Christmas   When We Make Love   When We Make Love.   Why Lady Why   Will The Circle Be Unbroken   Will You Marry Me   Will You Marry Me - Alabama/Jann Arden   Will You Marry Me (Alabama With Jann Arden)   Will You Marry Me?   Woman Back Home   Wonderful Waste of Time   Words at Twenty Paces   Write It Down in Blue   You Can't Take The Country Out Of Me   You Only Paint the Picture Once   You Turn Me On   You're My Explanation For Living   You've Got the Touch   You've Got The Touch 1986

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