[Featuring Peggy Lee],I'm Beginning to See the Light [Featuring Kitty Kallen],One for My Baby (And One More for the Road) [From The Sky's the Limit],It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing),Let Me off Uptown [Featuring Roy Eldridge/Anita O'Day],Going up to the Country, Paint My Mailbox Blue,Loving Her Was Easier (Than Anything I'll Ever Do Again),The Sweetest Thing [Featuring Lauryn Hill],Turn! He achieved his greatest success in the 1970s as a major force in country music's "Outlaw Movement" popularized by artists such as David Allan Coe, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Billy Joe Shaver and Merle Haggard. He served a prison sentence in the early 1990s but his declining health effectively ended his career in early 2000.Coe's recording was released in 1978 on his "Family Album". The song was first recorded by Paycheck on his album also titled Take This Job and Shove It.

Coe was annoyed that people assumed that Paycheck had written the song. Take This Job and Shove It Lyrics: Take this job and shove it, I ain't working here no more / My woman left and took all the reasons I was working for / … The song inspired a 1981 film of the same name.Get instant explanation for any lyrics that hits you anywhere on the web!Get instant explanation for any acronym or abbreviation that hits you anywhere on the web!https://www.lyrics.com/lyric/3213895/Johnny+Paycheck,Sony Music 100 Years: Soundtrack for a Century,Some of These Days [Featuring Sophie Tucker],Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man [From Show Boat],Happy Days Are Here Again [From Chasing Rainbows],Minnie the Moocher's Wedding Day [From the Cotton Club Revue of 1932],Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? (Though the single released by Paycheck, and subsequent album, both correctly credit Coe as the song's composer.) Its B-side, "Colorado Kool-Aid," spent ten weeks on the same chart and peaked at #50.Johnny Paycheck was the stage name of Donald Eugene Lytle (May 31, 1938 – February 19, 2003), a country music singer and Grand Ole Opry member most famous for recording the David Allan Coe song "Take This Job and Shove It".

In the 1980s, his music career suffered from his problems with drugs, alcohol, and legal difficulties. The recording hit number one on the country charts for two weeks, spending 18 weeks on the charts. It included the double-meaning line "Paycheck, you may be a thing of the past." Take this job and shove it I ain't working here no more My woman done left And took all the reasons I was working for. You better not try to stand in my way As I'm walking out the door Take this job and shove it I ain't working here no more. It was Paycheck's only #1 hit. [From Americana],I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues [From Earl Carroll's Vanities of 1932],I Can't Get Started [From Ziegfeld Follies of 1936],These Foolish Things [Featuring Billy Holiday],September Song [From Knickerbocker Holiday],I Thought About You [Featuring Mildred Bailey],Why Don't You Do Right? The song was first recorded by Paycheck on his album also titled Take This Job and Shove It. Turn!

Turn! "Take This Job and Shove It" is a 1977 country music song written by David Allan Coe and popularized by Johnny Paycheck, about the bitterness of a man who has worked long and hard with no apparent reward. Coe also recorded a variation of the song called "Take This Job and Shove It Too" on his 1980 album "I've Got Something To Say". 1 [Featuring Theodore Pendergrass, Jr.],I Wonder If I Take You Home [With Full Force],Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now),Careless Whisper [Featuring George Michael],Because You Loved Me [Theme from Up Close & Personal]. "Take This Job and Shove It" is a 1977 country music song written by David Allan Coe and popularized by Johnny Paycheck, about the bitterness of a man who has worked long and hard with no apparent reward.

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