"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 the Atlantic Provinces of Canada to the province of Alberta for work. The introduction also states that the song contains the "knuckle-dragging" beat characteristic of morris 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.[1] 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 by Jon Berger.[2]
