| Old Crow Medicine Show – Take 'Em Away Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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It's actually "There's a boss-man in the turn row with a rifle in his hand." When you're plowing, as the guy in the song is, you plow down a long row then turn around in the turn row and plow up another row. During the great dust bowl many, many farmers in the mid-west lost their farms and fled to California where they became migrant workers on other peoples farms. These people worked long hours for extremely low pay. Life for workers on these farms was desperate and violent. People were literally starving while they were surrounded by food on the farms they worked. Hence the rifle. |
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