Bob Dylan, explored

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From Workingman’s Blues #2

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  1. Start here

    1964Greenwich Village
    1 of 6

    North Country Blues

    The Times They Are a-Changin'

    Same theme as Union Sundown: Both tell of American working people losing their livelihoods when the work moves to cheaper places abroad.

  2. ↓ 5 years later

    1969Late Renaissance
    2 of 6

    Workin' Man Blues

    Merle Haggard

    Same theme as Workingman’s Blues #2: Dylan's title points back to Haggard's working-class anthem, and both songs honor the laborer.

  3. ↓ 14 years later

    1983The '80s
    3 of 6

    Union Sundown

    Infidels

    Same theme as Workingman’s Blues #2: Both lament the American worker losing out to a global economy.

  4. ↓ the same year

    1983The '80s
    4 of 6

    License to Kill

    Infidels

    Same theme as Union Sundown: Both Infidels songs criticize power and greed in modern society.

  5. ↓ 23 years later

    2006Late Renaissance
    5 of 6

    Workingman’s Blues #2

    Modern Times

    Where you started.

  6. ↓ 9 years later

    2015The Standards
    6 of 6

    That Lucky Old Sun

    Shadows in the Night

    Same theme as Workingman’s Blues #2: Both are sung from the view of a worn-out laboring man.