Scabby Cousin Jack, A

DESCRIPTION: "It's great to be a miner bold And work upon the hill Protected by a rifle cold Held by a scissor bill... Because you haven't got the guts To be a man and strike." The singer warns the scab of what will happen later; he'd better "beat it down the pike"
AUTHOR: Words: Joe Kennedy (source: Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest)
EARLIEST DATE: c. 1918 (New Songs for the Butte Mining Camp, according to Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest)
KEYWORDS: mining warning scab labor-movement
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest, p. 173, "A Scabby Cousin Jack" (1 text, 1 tune)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Auld Lang Syne" (tune) and references there
File: LDC173

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