For a special Labor Day edition of Manic Monday, we’re paying tribute to all those hardworking people out there who unfortunately do not have today off. Indeed, for those folks, it could be said that Labor Day “Ain’t No Picnic”, so this classic video from the Minutemen goes out to them. R.I.P. D. Boon:
“Working on the edge, losing my self-respect
For a man who presides over me
The principles of his creed
Punch in punch out, eight hours, five days a week
Sweat, pain and agony, on Friday I’ll get paid
This ain’t no picnic!
Hey mister, don’t look down on me for what I believe
I got my bills and the rent, I should go pitch a tent
But our land isn’t free
So I’ll work my youth away in the place of a machine
I refuse to be a slave
This ain’t no picnic!”
