“The Long Peggin' Awl”

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"

Notes

Talk about lumping: Kennedy 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

Recordings

• Harry Cox "The Long Peggin' Awl" (on FSB2, FSB2CD)
• A. L. Lloyd, "The Pegging Awl" (on BirdBush1, BirdBush2)

References

1. Randolph-Legman I, pp. 280-281, "The Long Peggin' Awl" (1 partial text, 1 tune)
2. Kennedy 181, "The Long Peggin' Awl" (1 text, 1 tune)
3. DT, LNGPGAWL*
4. Roud #2126
5. BI, RL280