Kitten in the Wheat, The

DESCRIPTION: "A sab-cat and a Wobbly band, A rebel song or two, And we'll show the parasite Just what a cat can do." The Wobblies work and say "All for one and one for all." They warn against throwing the Wobblies into prison
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1968 (Greenway-FolkloreOfTheGreatWest)
KEYWORDS: labor-movement prison
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Greenway-FolkloreOfTheGreatWest, pp. 321-322, "The Kitten in the Wheat" (1 text)
NOTES [52 words]: According to Greenway-FolkloreOfTheGreatWest, a "sab-cat was the symbol of sabotage," so this song threatens sabotage against those who threaten the Wobblies too strongly. This was one of the handful of songs not in the Little Red Songbooks that John Neuhaus intended to add to his collection of Wobbly songs. - RBW
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