Chores

What is a chore?

• job: a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee; "estimates of the city's loss on that job ranged as high as a million dollars"; "the job of repairing the engine took several hours"; "the endless task of classifying the samples"; "the farmer's morning chores"
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• chores - A small or minor job; a routine duty of a household or farm.
  www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3447200032.html

How does someone raise up a chore?
What is the difference between a household chore and the chore that's mentioned in the song?
When did the term "chore" come around?
What is another name for a chore?