Bell Goes A-Ringing for Sai-Rah

DESCRIPTION: "If you please, you see I'm a domestic, Or what some would call a 'servant girl.'" She slaves for small wages, and so the bell is always ringing to call her, "from morning until night." It's hard life; she cannot be found talking; it's back to work
AUTHOR: G. W. Hunt (Source: New-Comic-Songster)
EARLIEST DATE: 1870 (New-Comic-Songster)
KEYWORDS: servant work hardtimes
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REFERENCES (2 citations):
New-Comic-Songster, p. 22, "The Bell Goes A-RInging for Sai-Rah" (1 text, 1 tune)
Dime-Song-Book #23, pp. 10-11, "The Bell Goes a-Ringing for Sai-rah" (1 text)
Roud #13656
ALTERNATE TITLES:
Bells Go Ringing for Sarah
NOTES [25 words]: It's hard for me to believe that this would ever go into tradition, but there is a fragment from East Anglia that may be this, so I've indexed it. - RBW
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