I've Worked Eight Hours This Day

DESCRIPTION: "Little Tommy Hooligan He came home quite full again." He asks to be let in the locked door; Bridget will not let him in because "I've worked eight hours this day" and will not work more. A barber stops in the midst of a shave; he has worked eight hours
AUTHOR: Felix McGlennon (source: Sheet music)
EARLIEST DATE: 1983 (Kane-SongsAndSayingsOfAnUlsterChildhood), but believed to be from c. 1890, when the eight hour movement wsa at its height
KEYWORDS: humorous work hair drink
FOUND IN: Ireland
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Kane-SongsAndSayingsOfAnUlsterChildhood, p. 93, "Little Tommy Hooligan" (1 text)
DT, EIGHTHRS*
Roud #37290
RECORDINGS:
Sandra Noble, "I've Worked Eight Hours This Day" (Piotr-Archive #207, recorded 07/13/2022)
File: KSUC093B

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