Long Peggin’ Awl
Six for Gold track 8
Traditional songs often turn a workman’s tools into phallic symbols - the blacksmith's hammer, the coachman's whip, and here, the cobbler’s awl (an awl is a pointed hand tool used for making holes in leather). The song is from the singing of Harry Cox, of Catfield Common in Norfolk, and is printed in A. L. Lloyd’s classic Folk Song in England.