The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #100172   Message #2005412
Posted By: Bee
23-Mar-07 - 07:14 PM
Thread Name: Is this a folk song?
Subject: RE: Is this a folk song?
It would be more likely to become a folk song if, indeed, there was a story line. It seems to be just a complaint about being bored with a factory job. There are hints that the company treats the workers as robots, but no description of how. Up against many labour protest songs, it comes off as a bit of a whiner, really (What? No Black Lung, Shattered Legs, Trapped Miners, Dead-in-a-fire Factory Girls?).