"Take This Job and Shove It"

[Sam Clements]

>From: "Fred Shapiro" <fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU>
>Sent: Sunday, October 22, 2006 7:42 AM
>Subject: "Take This Job and Shove It"


> Does anyone have any evidence or hunches as to whether the expression
> "take this job and shove it" originated with Johnny Paycheck's 1977 song
> of that title?
>
> Fred Shapiro

A quick reading of some sites say that David Allan Coe actually wrote the
song and Paycheck essentially allowed people to think that he(Paycheck)
wrote it.

I'll do some more looking this afternoon.

Sam Clements

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