Mudcat Café message #2241433

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Thread #73581 Message #2241433
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
21-Jan-08 - 01:46 PM
Thread Name: Origins: When/where did 'Peg and Awl' turn up?
Subject: RE: Origins: When/where did 'Peg and Awl' turn up?

Asking again, any evidence of the song before 1925?
To me, it seems like one of those mill-related songs that came out after WW1.

A pegging machine was devised as early as 1838, making pegs for sale to shoe-boot makers, but there is no reason to believe that the song dates back to that time.