Labour Boroo, The

DESCRIPTION: The singer dreams he is at the "Labour Borue." Everyone is polite; they offer a seat, brandy, a smoke, money for the asking, and a taxi home; his wife welcomes him. His wife wakes him. He screams. She asks if his worthless self had had a nightmare.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1970 (Morton-FolksongsSungInUlster)
KEYWORDS: work unemployment dream husband wife
FOUND IN: Ireland
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Morton-FolksongsSungInUlster 25, "The Dream" (1 text, 1 tune)
Hammond-SongsOfBelfast, pp. 46-47, "The Labour Boroo" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #2886
NOTES [46 words]: Morton-FolksongsSungInUlster: "N.E. Ireland has always been the 'industrialized' sector of the country.... When a man is unemployed he faces what for many is a humiliating half-life of 'signing on at the Employment Exchange', otherwise known as the Labour Bureau (Borue)." - BS
File: MorU025

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