As promised, for all those overworked and undercompensated people, especially those who don’t even get Labor Day off, here’s an alternative national anthem from the late Hoyt Axton, with Renee Armand on harmony: “Boney Fingers.”

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Ed Kilgore, a contributing editor of the Washington Monthly, is a columnist for New York.