Take This Job and Shove it - Wikipedia Take This Job and Shove it This article is about the song. For the film, see Take This Job and Shove It ( film ). For the album, see Take This Job and Shove It ( album ). `` Take This Job and Shove It '' Single by Johnny Paycheck from the album Take This Job and Shove It B - side `` Colorado Kool - Aid '' Released October 1977 Format 7 '' single Recorded August 24, 1977 Genre Country Length 2 : 35 Label Epic 50469 Songwriter ( s ) David Allan Coe Producer ( s ) Billy Sherrill Johnny Paycheck singles chronology `` I 'm the Only Hell ( Mama Ever Raised ) '' ( 1977 ) `` Take This Job and Shove It '' ( 1977 ) `` Georgia in a Jug '' ( 1978 ) `` I 'm the Only Hell ( Mama Ever Raised ) '' ( 1977 ) `` Take This Job and Shove It ' '' ( 1977 ) `` Georgia in a Jug '' ( 1978 ) `` Take This Job and Shove It '' is a 1977 country music song written by David Allan Coe and popularized by Johnny Paycheck, about the bitterness of a man who has worked long and hard with no apparent reward. The song was first recorded by Paycheck on his album also titled Take This Job and Shove It. The recording hit number one on the country charts for two weeks, spending 18 weeks on the charts. It was Paycheck 's only # 1 hit. Its B - side, `` Colorado Kool - Aid, '' spent ten weeks on the same chart and peaked at # 50. Coe 's recording was released in 1978 on his `` Family Album ''. Coe also recorded a variation of the song called `` Take This Job and Shove It Too '' on his 1980 album `` I 've Got Something To Say ''. It included the double - meaning line `` Paycheck you may be a thing of the past. '' Coe was annoyed people assumed Paycheck had written the song. Though the single released by Paycheck, and subsequent album, both correctly credit Coe as the song 's composer. The song inspired a 1981 film by the same name. A cover version also appears on Bedtime for Democracy by Dead Kennedys. Another cover version, `` Shove This Jay - Oh - Bee '', performed by Canibus with Biz Markie, appears in the film Office Space. Chuck Barris and the Hollywood Cowboys performed a modified version of the piece as Barris 's swan song when The Gong Show was kicked off NBC in 1978. Contents 1 Phrase 2 Chart performance 3 References 4 External links Phrase `` Take this job and shove it '' became a popular phrase as a result of the song. It also became a snowclone phrase, leading to a variety of book and article titles of the form, `` Take this job and... it ''. The most notable is `` Take this job and love it '', which has been the title of dozens of books, mostly about career counseling, as well as the title of a 2007 episode of the television series Hannah Montana. Another notable variation was the 2006 book Take This Job and Ship It by U.S. Senator Byron Dorgan. Another variation is the quote `` take this job and fill it '' from the Simpsons episode, `` Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy ''. ( Another related snowclone is `` take this... and shove it, '' for any unpleasant or low - quality item. ) Chart performance Chart ( 1977 -- 78 ) Peak position U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles Canadian RPM Country Tracks References ^ Jump up to : Whitburn, Joel ( 2008 ). Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008. Record Research, Inc. p. 319. ISBN 0 - 89820 - 177 - 2. External links Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics Preceded by `` Here You Come Again '' by Dolly Parton Billboard Hot Country Singles number - one single January 7 - January 14, 1978 Succeeded by `` What a Difference You 've Made in My Life '' by Ronnie Milsap Preceded by `` Sweet Music Man '' by Kenny Rogers RPM Country Tracks number - one single January 14, 1978 Succeeded by `` My Way '' by Elvis Presley Johnny Paycheck Studio albums Take This Job and Shove It ( 1977 ) Double Trouble ( 1980 ) Singles `` She 's All I Got '' `` Take This Job and Shove It '' `` Maybellene '' `` You Better Move On '' Related articles Discography This 1970s country song -- related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Take_This_Job_and_Shove_It&oldid=807976309 '' Categories : 1977 singles Johnny Paycheck songs Billboard Hot Country Songs number - one singles RPM Country Tracks number - one singles David Allan Coe songs Song recordings produced by Billy Sherrill Criticism of work Termination of employment in popular culture Songs about labor Epic Records singles Songs written by David Allan Coe 1977 songs Biz Markie songs Canibus songs 1970s country song stubs Hidden categories : Articles with hAudio microformats All stub articles Talk Contents About Wikipedia Add links This page was last edited on 31 October 2017, at 03 : 54. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution - ShareAlike License ; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia ® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization. About Wikipedia

Question: who wrote the song take this job and shove it
Answer: David Allan Coe