Johnny Paycheck - Take This Job And Shove It 1978

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Take this job and shove it, I ain't workin' here no more. My woman done left, An' took all the reasons I was workin' for. You better not to try to stand in my way, As I'm a walkin' out the door. Take this job and shove it, I ain't workin' here no more. I've been workin' in this fact'ry, For nigh on fifteen years. All this time, I watched my woman, Drownin' in a pool of tears. An I've seen a lot of my good folk die, Had a lot of bills to pay. I'd give the shirt right off of my back, If I had the guts to say. Take this job and shove it, I ain't workin' here no more. My woman done left, An' took all the reasons I was workin' for. You better not to try to stand in my way, As I'm a walkin' out the door. Take this job and shove it, I ain't workin' here no more. Well, that foreman, he's a regular dog, The line boss is a fool. Got a brand new flat-top haircut; Lord, he thinks he's cool. One of these days, I'm gonna blow my top, And sucker, he's gonna pay Lord, I can't wait to see their faces, When I get the nerve to say: Take this job and shove it, I ain't workin' here no more. My woman done left, An' took all the reasons I was workin' for. You better not to try to stand in my way, As I'm a walkin' out the door. Take this job and shove it, I ain't workin' here no more. Take this job and shove it.

Brief biography courtesy of Wikipedia
Johnny Paycheck (May 31, 1938 Ð February 18, 2003) was a country music singer. He is most famous for recording the David Allan Coe song "Take This Job and Shove It". Born Donald Eugene Lytle in Greenfield, Ohio, United States, he began playing guitar by age six and made his first record at age 15. After a time served in the United States Navy (which included a court-martial for assault), he began performing under the name Donny Young. The singer took a job with country music star George Jones, for whom he played bass and steel guitar. He later co-wrote Jones' hit song "Once You've Had the Best." Paycheck was a tenor harmony singer for numerous hard country acts of the late nineteen fifties and early nineteen sixties. He is featured as a tenor singer on recordings by Faron Young, Roger Miller, and Skeets Mcdonald. All of these recordings are recognizable by their honky tonk purism. They shun vocal choruses and strings in favor of steel guitar, twin fiddles, shuffle beats, high harmony, and self-consciously miserable lyrics. As George Jones' tenor singer, Paycheck has been credited with the development of Jones' unique vocal phrasing. By the 1960s, he had changed his name to Johnny Paycheck, a name similar to Johnny Cash. Lytle reportedly re-named himself after the boxer, Johnny Paychek, who fought Joe Louis in 1940. Paycheck had his first hit with a minor Buck Owens' hit "A-11". This recording set a pattern for the rest of his 1960's work. Paycheck also co-owned his own record company Little Darlin' Records, with his producer Aubrey Mayhew. Paycheck's Little Darlin recordings feature the shrieking pedal steel guitar work of Lloyd Green. By the end of the 1960's, Paycheck had descended into alcoholism and drug abuse, and Little Darlin Records folded. In the late 1990s, after taking them for granted for years, country music historians began to recognize the distinctive and sharp-edged sound of the Little Darlin' recordings as unique in their time, Paycheck's in particular. In the early 70's, Paycheck was revived by producer Billy Sherrill, who significantly changed Paycheck's sound and image. With the popularity of Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings in the mid 70's, Paycheck again changed his image to that of outlaw, where he was to have his largest financial success. A member of the Grand Ole Opry, Paycheck is best remembered for his 1977 hit single, "Take This Job and Shove It" (written by David Allan Coe), which sold over 2 million copies and inspired a motion picture of the same name. "Colorado Kool-Aid" is another of his most famous songs. In his career, Paycheck recorded eleven songs that made it into country music's top ten chart, plus he co-wrote several successful songs for other country singers, including "Apartment #9," a hit for Tammy Wynette. His life was often filled with turmoil and in 1985, Paycheck was convicted of shooting a man in Hillsboro, Ohio (after the man asked Paycheck to visit his home and try his deer meat and turtle soup. Paycheck responded, "Do you see me as some kind of hick?...I don't like you," and later fired a .22 pistol that grazed the man's head, claiming it was self-defense) and spent two years in prison. His tax problems with the IRS led to his filing for bankruptcy in 1990. In the 1990s, he began capitalizing the fourth letter of his name in a style later dubbed CamelCase, preferring to be known as Johnny PayCheck. Paycheck suffered from drug and alcohol addiction during his career, although he was said to have "put his life in order" after his prison stay. Suffering from emphysema and asthma after a lengthy illness, Johnny Paycheck died at Nashville's Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He was interred in Woodlawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Nashville.

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