In the "SONGS OF WORK" theread I took note of the fact that this is definitely a song about WORK.

The job of father, breadwinner and hunter in order to provide food for unappreciative kids who just yell for MORE is pretty much universal. (And the kids get the bones. Appreciative kids, of course, would get much more. (As Rodney Dangerfield was so fond of saying, "I don't get no respect!!")

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