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[[Just for Pun]] and [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin]]: Doing work to the tune of music. Disney musicals love this one: "Whistle While You Work" practically defines it. Could go all the way back to using drums to synchronize rowers in galleys, depending on your definition of music.

* "The Work Song" in ''Cinderella'' is actually sung by the mice and not Cinderella herself, while thethey make her first party dress (the one that is later destroyed). Cinderella did sing a song while she worked ("Sing Sweet Nightingale") but it wasn't about work - she was just singing along while her ugly sisters got a music lesson upstairs and did a much better job of it whilst cleaning the floor. "The Work Song" had an earlier version which was to be sung by Cinderella but it was reworked into the mouse version.

{{quote| ''If you cut every corner it is really not so bad;<br />

''Everybody does it, even Mum and Dad<br />

''If nobody sees it then nobody gets mad<br />

''It's the American Way!'' }}

* ''[[Sleeping Beauty (Disney film)|Sleeping Beauty]]'': The Good Fairies do some chanting and singing while using their magic to set up for Briar Rose's birthday party. The whole sequence is set to (instrumental) music which is called "Three Good Fairies Sing a Smiling Song" on the soundtrack.

* ''[[The Sword in Thethe Stone]]'': Merlin sings "Higitus Figitus" while packing to move. The song is also a spell, which shrinks all his belongings so they will fit into a single suitcase. An instrumental reprise of the same tune plays when he enchants the castle dishes to wash themselves.

* "Brazzle Dazzle Day" in ''~[[Pete's Dragon~]]'' isn't about the chore of whitewashing the lighthouse, but that's what they're doing as they start singing, and the dance break of sorts is based around characters breathing on the windows so the other characters can clean them.

* "Whistle While You Work" from ''[[Snow White and Thethe Seven Dwarfs (Disney film)|Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs]]''. Early in the film, Snow White sings "I'm Wishing" while drawing water from the well--whatwell—what she is wishing for is a lover to take her away from her life of drudgery.

* In ''[[Barbie and Thethe Diamond Castle]]'', Alexa and Liana sing as they clean up the damage done to their garden during a storm.

* "It's the Hard-Knock Life" from ''[[Annie (Theatre)|Annie]]'' is sung during the orphans' chores...and they are ''not'' happy about it.

* "Scrubbing Day" from ''The New Adventures of [[Pippi Longstocking (Literature)|Pippi Longstocking]]''.

* <s>"Laundry Day"</s> "Freeze Ray" from [[Dr. HorriblesHorrible's Sing -Along Blog]] combines this with an [["I Want" Song]], as he encounters his crush, Penny at a laundromat.

* Although not (yet) appearing in a musical or film, De Staat's "Sweatshop" is obviously some kind of send-up of this trope.

{{quote| ''I'm packing that meat meat<br />

''Workin' long hours on the count of the beat beat<br />

''I'm packin' that meat meat<br />

''Goin' long hours gonna grow a lotta wheat }}

* "The Well That Divides Life and Death" from [[Sound Horizon]]'s ''Märchen'' is based on the [[Fairy Tale]] of [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Hulda:Mother Hulda|Mother Hulda]]'', and thus spends a good deal of time focusing on the hard-working girl's, well, work.