Ritchie also notes somewhere that "Bachelor's Hall" was popular at Pine Mountain Settlement School while one of her sisters was attending. There was a close association between settlement schools and the suffrage movement. Many of the settlement workers had an interest in collecting songs. The climate around 1920, when the vote was finally won, or the years leading up to it, would have been ripe for crossover of women's lament lyrics into a song originally celebrating joys of bachelorhood.