Long Peggin' Awl, The

DESCRIPTION: A girl is berated by her mother for running away with a shoemaker. The girl retorts that the older woman did the same thing: "You followed old dad for his long peggin' awl"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1925 (recording, Kelly Harrell)
KEYWORDS: bawdy mother elopement
FOUND IN: Britain(England(Lond)) US(MA,MW,SE,So)
REFERENCES (4 citations):
Randolph/Legman-RollMeInYourArms I, pp. 280-281, "The Long Peggin' Awl" (1 partial text, 1 tune)
Kennedy-FolksongsOfBritainAndIreland 181, "The Long Peggin' Awl" (1 text, 1 tune)
Newman/Devlin-NeverWithoutASong, p. 200, "Long Fol-de-Rol" (1 fragment, 1 tune)
DT, LNGPGAWL*
Roud #2126
RECORDINGS:
Harry Cox "The Long Peggin' Awl" (on FSB02, FSB2CD)
A. L. Lloyd, "The Pegging Awl" (on BirdBush1, BirdBush2)
NOTES [43 words]: Talk about lumping: Kennedy-FolksongsOfBritainAndIreland includes the Carolina Tar Heels' "Peg and Awl" as quoted by Lomax. I know both songs. No way. The phrase is common to them only because those two tools were found together in the kit of a shoemaker. - PJS
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