Five O’clock world

1. Five O’clock world By: Keanna Brumant, Jovin Celestin, Harry Balla

2. Lyrics • The Vogues-Five O'clock World • Up every morning' just to keep a job I gotta fight my way through the hustling mob Sounds of the city poundin' in my brain While another day goes down the drain (yeah,yeah)  • But its a five o'clock world when the whistle blows No one owns a piece of my time And theres a five oclock me inside my clothes Thinkin? that the world looks fine, yeah • (SCAT: oh-de-lay-ee-ee, etc ) • Tradin' my time for the pay I get Livin' on money that I aint made yet Ive been goin' tryin' to make my way While I live for the end of the day (yeah, yeah) • Cuz its a five o'clock world when the whistle blows No one owns a piece of my time Theres a long-haired girl who waits, I know To ease my troubled mind, yeah • (SCAT: oh-de-lay-ee-ee, etc ) • In the shelter of her arms everythings OK When she talks then the world goes slippin' away And I know the reason I can still go on When every other reason is gone, (yeah, yeah) • In my five o'clock world she waits for me Nothing else matters at all Cuz every time my baby smiles at me I know thats its all worthwhile, yeah • (SCAT: oh-de-lay-ee-ee, etc )

3. Message of the song • The message of the song is that work is hard and stressful but you keep going to make money and at the end of the day you just want to go home to that special someone.

4. Questions and Answers • Harry Balla • How many songs did you listen to before choosing the song you’re proposing? Did you find them through different sources?All together me and my group listened and revised about 4 songs before we made a decision on the song we picked.What song do you propose? Title, artist, date:Five O’clock World by The Vogues 1965What genre of music is this? Is it out of your regular genre? Explain.This is a country song. It is not out of the genre of out group because we all listen to hip hop, rock and roll or R&B musicWhich decade is it from?This song is from the 1960s. It was made in 1965 to be more exact.

5. Questions and Answers • Keanna Brumant What work issue is it responding to historically? What was going on in history for society, for workers when this song was written (or in the period of time the song is written about)? The work issue it is responding to is in the sixties teenagers and adults who didn’t enjoytheir jobs and could wait until five o’clock when they clocked out. Five o’clock was the time that everyone would live their jobs to go home in the sixties. People who didn’t like their jobs would look forward to leaving at five. How many verses are there (taking out the chorus) that refer to work? There are six verses. How does this song reflect the everyday work experiences of ordinary workers? This reflects the everyday work of ordinary people because today, some people who don’t like their jobs look forward to leaving when their shifts end, For example I don’t enjoy my job so when I start my shift I count the hours until my shift ends.Which lyrics specifically relate to work? The lyrics that relate to work is verse one. When analyzed line-by-line, how does the song reflect the everyday, real life work of ordinary people? (Be specific—quote from song) When analyzed the song showed how some people would feel about their job. “Up every morning just to keep a job, I gotta fight my way through the hustling mob, Sounds of the city poundin in my brain, While another day goes down the drain”(the Vogues,V#1). In this quote it talks about the person getting up and getting ready for work and they aren’t not that excited about going to work.

6. Questions and Answers • Jovin Celestin • What is the overall message about work, a job, a career, vacation? The overall message of the song is work hard sometimes and it sometimes brings a lot of stress but when has with his girl he forgets all about his problems. How does it relate to one or more of the following Terkel quotations: “the scars brought home,” work as “violence to the spirit as well as the body,” work as a “search for daily meaning [not a] Monday through Friday sort of dying,” “status…becomes important…society, they feel, looks upon them as lesser,” “jobs that are too small for the spirit, “the extraordinary dreams of ordinary people.” The quote that most relates to our song is “Monday through Friday sort of dying”. This quote relates most to our story because the quote is saying sometime working all week is hard and you don’t wont to be there sometimes the song we have chosen is about a work day till five o clock and how hard it could be How does it connect to the issues that we’ve read about in the oral histories, short story, or poems? Be specific—name the pieces and how it connects. This can include the oral history you conducted. The song mostly connects to my oral history because its tilling a story about how hard a work day is till five o clock but it gets better after he comes home to his wife. In my oral history my mother doesn’t always like working and doing her job at the nursing home but knowing that she giving us a better future everyday helps her get through it How does it connect to current events and issues in the news? It don’t really connect to much with what going now because it was written so long ago.

7. Conclusion • In conclusion, we choose the song Five O’ clock world by the Vogues because the song is a good example of people who do not enjoy their place of employment and when they go to work the count down the hours until they have to go home.