My Tuesdays are Meatless

DESCRIPTION: "My Tuesdays are Meatless, My Wednesdays are Wheatless, I'm getting more Eatless every day. My home it is Heatless, My bed it is Sheetless, They're all sent to the YMCA." And on through the troubles of the War, ending "Oh boy! How I do hate the Kaiser"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1918 (FIshkil Weekly Times, according to Nestler)
KEYWORDS: war hardtimes food
FOUND IN: US(MA)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
ADDITIONAL: Harold Nestler, "Songs from the Hudson Valley" (article in _New York Folklore Quarterly_, Volume V, #2, Summer 1949), p. 101, "(My Tuesdays are Meatless)" (1 text)
File: Nest101B

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