Songs for the Working Day

Looking for a musical boost to help you get through the day? Try this playlist of tunes on medicine, nursing, and working life!

Medicine

Dr. Seibel first began writing songs as a resident to help himself remember medical procedures. Twenty-five years later, he has released five entertaining and educational CDs, with songs for children ("Don't be Afraid of a Squash"), teens ("B.O."), and adults ("Try Omega 3s," "Think STDs," and "Red Hot Mama" – a song about menopause.) More information about Dr. Seibel's music can be found at HealthRock.com.

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A funny song for kids, in which a child talks to a doctor several times about being scared by a monster when he goes to bed. None of the doctor's recommendations for solving the problem work – but in the end, the child's mom's advice works! So it's either saying don't trouble doctors with frivolous complaints, or always get a second opinion.

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"Like a surgeon, hey

Cuttin' for the very first time

Like a surgeon …"

Hope your first surgery was nothing like this one!

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"I don't go to therapy to find out if I'm a freak

I go and I find the one and only answer every week

And it's just me and all the memories to follow

Down any course that fits within a fifty minute hour."

Honest and touching lyrics about psychotherapy and self-discovery.

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"It takes work,

but it can be done,

to look 23 at 51."

A look at the dangers of vanity and plastic surgery.

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"Just a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down

In a most delightful way"

Combines childhood nostalgia with sound advice.

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"Your love is like bad medicine

Bad medicine is what I need

Shake it up, just like bad medicine

There ain't no doctor that can

Cure my disease"

Everyone knows there's no cure for love…

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"I'm the doctor, I can mend your broken heart

I'm the healer, I could take you right back to the start"

No cure, that is, except for more love.

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"When there's a feeling inside,

That just can't be denied,

I will be your medicine man."

I'm starting to detect a theme here …

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"Doctor, doctor, can't you see I'm burning, burning

Oh doctor, doctor, is this love I'm feeling? …"

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Other musicians that make the metaphorical connections between love, illness, and healing include the Rolling Stones' "Dear Doctor"; Ben Harper's "Sexual Healing"; Robert Palmer's "Bad Case of Loving You (Doctor, Doctor)", and "Dr. Feelgood".

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Nursing

"She will hold his hand,

Stay with him to the end.

You know she understands,

She's the soldier's friend."

An ode to Florence Nightingale and nurses everywhere.

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"She never ran from the shot and the shell

Bringing aid and comfort in the midst of hell."

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"Guarding her patients with a .45

Checking the wounded to make sure they're alive

By days she's in fatigues and at night she's in a dress

She's everybody's savior, the Army combat nurse."

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"Thank the Nurse that's nursing you,

For saving your life!"

Yet another musical tribute to nurses from Country Joe McDonald, country singer and extremely grateful patient.

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Like Dr. Mache Seibel, Too Live Nurse combines medicine with music and humor. The group specializes in live shows that "provide therapeutic humor for the healthcare professional," and their numbers include "The Bedpan Blues," "Ventilate Me," and "Sarie Gramp's Enema Camp."

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Work

"Heigh-ho, heigh-ho

It's off to work we go

We keep on singing all day long

Heigh-ho

Heigh-ho, heigh-ho

Got to make your troubles go

Well, you keep on singing all day long

Heigh-ho."

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"He can't stand a loss

He's always cross

His name is Ross…

I love my boss!"

A zany tale of workplace devotion and mayhem.

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"Take this job and shove it

I ain't working here no more!"

I think the lyrics are self-explanatory.

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"I don't want to work

I just want to bang on the drum all day!"

Once again, I think the lyrics are self-explanatory.

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"Workin' 9 to 5

What a way to make a livin"

There's nothing better than country music for encapsulating the frustration of hard work with little reward.

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"She works hard for the money

so you better treat her right."

The quintessential 80s anthem for the working woman.

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"Hit my snooze alarm for the twenty seventh time

Just don't feel like goin' to work – I think I'll call my boss, then I'm

Gonna hack and cough and wheeze

Swear I got some strange disease

What's that little twerp gonna say

Hey

I'm callin' in sick today

Callin' in sick today."

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"I-I'm climbing up, up the corporate ladder

Watch out … Well, it's dog eat dog

Nose against the grindstone, it feels all right

Watch out … Hey! Well, it's dog eat dog. …

Nobody's sure what I do here

And, ah, that's just fine with me

Five o'clock is here much too soon now

'Cause I just never wanna leave."

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"Riding in the bus down the boulevard

And the place was pretty packed (yeah!)

Couldn't find a seat so I had to stand

With the perverts in the back

It was smelling like a locker room

There was junk all over the floor

We're already packed in like sardines

But we're stopping to pick up more, look out …"

Just a little something for all of those commuters who use public transit!

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"I'm doin' all right, getting good grades

The future's so bright I gotta wear shades."

A catchy tune and boundless optimism helped propel this song to the top of the charts back in the 80s.

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