Recently, my brother played an excerpt of a cover tune he'd heard at an outdoor concert. Thus, I heard Sadie Hawkins Day String Band's impressive rendering of Woody Guthrie's "Union Maid." It's so memorable, in fact, that it hasn't left my mind for three days. It's pure Americana in its vocals, instrumentation, and hook, "I'm stickin' to the union."
My brother's cat, Lily, assured me she's stickin' to the union; after all, if any animal is going to stand up for its rights on the job, you'd expect it to be a cat. My cat, Collette, had been stickin' to the union, as well--until she got miffed by the increased union dues and bit the shop steward's feet.
I'd warned her about that. Luckily, she still has her job as a watchcat.
