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Workingman
Workingman meaning
A man who works in exchange for payment, especially a labourer who does manual labour.
Synonyms of Workingman
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His influence became less prominent after the Dead took a more roots-oriented turn with the million-selling 1970 release “Workingman’s Dead,” after which Garcia would pen the majority of the band’s songs with lyricist Robert Hunter.
Most notably, he played the high-spirited “Workingman’s Hymn,” an original song featured during his finale set on “The Voice” When fighting for the right to perform his own songs on the show, Davis claimed he faced pushback from NBC.
The workingman would then once more be in league with invention.
Though some still refer to the Florida Panhandle as the Redneck Riviera, 30A — a string of upscale beach communities between Destin and Panama City Beach — has expunged, for better or worse, most whiffs of the classic workingman’s beach holiday.
But it wasn’t the only workingman’s holiday on the table.
By 1970, it was estimated that the average workingman in America had 140 days off work each year.