- The Idiot (song)
"The Idiot" is a song written by
Stan Rogers , found on his albums "Northwest Passage" and "Home In Halifax ". On "Home in Halifax", Rogers introduces the song by explaining that it is about the movement of people away from theAtlantic Provinces ofCanada to the province ofAlberta for work. The introduction also states that the song contains the "knuckle-dragging" beat characteristic ofmorris dance tunes.The Berkeley Morris team wrote a dance to be danced to the tune of "The Idiot", in the Field Town style of morris dance. [cite web |title=Choreography of "The Idiot"|url=http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/morris/music/] The Bassett Street Hounds morris team of
Syracuse, N.Y. have written a dance called "The Drunken Idiot", performed to the tune of Stan Roger's "The Idiot", but with alternative words written byJon Berger . [cite web |last=Howe |first=Karin |title=The Drunken Idiot |publisher= |url=http://web.lemoyne.edu/~millermj/border/the_drunken_idiot.html |format=song |accesseddate=January 11,2008]References
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