Let Them Wear Their Watches Fine

DESCRIPTION: "I live in a town away down south, By the name of Buffalo, And worked in a town with the rest of the trash." The singer works in the factory, but the merchant takes the little he makes. The owners wear fine watches, but they will lose them at the judgment
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1930 (New Masses, according to Horton)
KEYWORDS: hardtimes boss labor-movement money
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
ADDITIONAL: Kristina Horton, _Martyr of Loray Mill: Ella May and the 1929 Textile Workers' Strike in Gastonia, North Carolina_, McFarland & Company, 2015, pp. 191-192, "A Southern Cotton Mill Rhyme" (1 text)
NOTES [46 words]: This song definitely sounds composed, and there is no direct evidence that it is traditional, but it is recorded as having been used during the Loray Mill Strike (for which see "Chief Aderholt"), and it has been recorded by many "folk" artists, so I am including it here. - RBW
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