"Working for the Man" is a song composed and sung by rock and roll performer Roy Orbison.
[5] It was the first release after the dissolution of Orbison's writing partnership with Joe Melson.
He said, "I was working for El Paso Natural Gas in the daytime, cutting up steel and loading it onto trucks and chopping weeds and painting water towers.
The yodelling, gleeful "Working for the Man" is a double-edged paean to hard-nosed capitalism.
"[9] Australian band Mental as Anything released the song as a non-album single in November 1983.