Dehorn, The

DESCRIPTION: "The dehorn's nose is deepest red, The one bright spot on his empty head"; he''ll do anything for more booze. The song tells him to get sober and join the Union. But the dehorn goes on behind exploited until he dies
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1968 (Greenway-FolkloreOfTheGreatWest)
KEYWORDS: labor-movement death drink
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Greenway-FolkloreOfTheGreatWest, pp. 324-325, "The Dehorn" (1 text)
NOTES [46 words]: According to Greenway-FolkloreOfTheGreatWest, a "dehorn" was someone dependent on alcohol or some other addictive chemical or behavior 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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