What is "work songs"

Usage examples of "work songs".

And just then, out there, like Hounds let loose, the church bells of America all begin to toll, peculiarly lucid in the fog, a dense Carillon, tun'd so exotically, they might be playing anything, Methodist hymns, Opera-hall Airs, jigs and gigues, work songs of sailors, Italian serenades, British Ballads, American Marches.

Adventure songs, work songs, mothering songs, roaming songs, mood songs, trouble songs, joke songs-everything.

According to tradition, the slaves often sang work songs and engaged in boisterous team competitions.

I had heard them all my life, not the modern rock adaptations, but the old railroad and work songs, the blues and ballads.

When they turned onto the Pyramid Road they began to sing one of the traditional work songs, with Daoud shouting out the lines and the men echoing them in a reverberant chorus.

So they used the silver to plate trumpets and cornets and slide trombones that belonged to the tabernacle musicians who were just then beginning to experiment with the old Sammsamounn tribal music that would eventually mate with work songs and prison songs and gospels, and evolve into traditional blues, which would evolve into traditional, or Dixie-style, jazz.