Dollar a Day Without Board, A

DESCRIPTION: "I've traveled this wide world o'er and o'er And have lived in many a clime, But poverty seems to have hold of me now"; he must work for "a dollar a day without board." It is not enough for a man with a family. They should follow their Leader Mr. Kearney
AUTHOR: Words: Harry Norcross (source: Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest)
EARLIEST DATE: 1877 (The Blue and Gray Songster, according to Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest)
KEYWORDS: work hardtimes family
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest, pp. 515-516, "A Dollar a Day Without Board" (1 text, 1 tune)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Jim FIsk" [Laws F18] (tune)
NOTES [42 words]: This is listed to the tune of "Jim Fisk." Given that this song goes back at least to 1877, that is pretty quick work -- Fisk was killed in 1872, and the song "Jim Fisk" was in existence by 1874. So this is a parody of what was then a brand-new song. - RBW
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File: LDC515

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