I Tend the Leers for Seven Years

DESCRIPTION: "I tend the leers for seven years, And now I am the boss, I am the boss, I am the boss, I am the boss, you see." A song to tease a worker promoted to foreman. (Leers were annealing chambers in glassworks.)
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1949 (Nestler)
KEYWORDS: boss work
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. 110, "(no title)" (1 text)
File: Nest110A

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