“Scraps From Your Table” was written by Hazel Dickens, the Appalachian singer and songwriter known for her pointed songs about working people and women’s lives. It appeared on her 1980 album “Hard Hitting Songs for Hard Hit People.”
The song is a defiant declaration from a woman who has been treated as second best. No longer willing to be the other woman, taking only the scraps from another’s table, she claims her own worth and walks away.
Dickens wrote with unusual directness about women’s experience. The version heard here is by Hazel Dickens.
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