Red-headed Peckerwood

DESCRIPTION: "Red-headed peckerwood, Pecking on a pine. Want a chew tobacco, But you can't chew mine."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1980 (Solomon-ZickaryZan)
KEYWORDS: bird drugs
FOUND IN: US(So)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Solomon-ZickaryZan, p. 84, "Red-headed Peckerwood" (1 text)
NOTES [39 words]: An interesting line. A "peckerwood" is usually a (poor) white person, perhaps similar to a redneck. But there is a bird known as a red-headed woodpecker, which of course pecks on wood. Might there be some mixture of meanings here? - RBW
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File: ZiZa084B

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