San Francisco Rag-Picker, The

DESCRIPTION: "O, ladies and gentlemen, list to my song! It's about a poor devil who can't get along." He's tried many businesses, without success -- chased away by the locals, cheated by his clerk, ignored by his audience. All that is left for him is rag-picking
AUTHOR: probably Fred Woodhull (source: Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest)
EARLIEST DATE: 1968 (but sung by Woodhull in the nineteenth century)
KEYWORDS: work hardtimes humorous
FOUND IN:
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest, pp. 517-518, "The San Francisco Rag-Picker" (1 text, tune referenced)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 18(431), "The San Francisco Rag-Picker," T. C. Boyd (San Francisco), c. 1860
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Lather and Shave" (tune)
File: LDC517

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