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Thread #33163 Message #2193837
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
14-Nov-07 - 04:57 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: A Dollar a Day Is All They Pay for Work..
Subject: ADD: SH-TA-RA-DAH-DEY
Printed with musical score in Carl Sandburg, 1927, "The American Songbag," pp. 36-37. Heard by Robert E. Lee of the Chicago Tribune from an Irishman in charge of the railroad station at Wallingford, Iowa.
SH-TA-RA-DAH-DEY
(Irish Lullaby)
[With a sigh]
Sh-ta-ra-dah-dey, sh-ta-dey,
Times is mighty hard.
A dollar a day is all they pay
For work on the boulevard.
Sh-ta-ra-dah-dey, sh-ta-dey,
Times is mighty hard.
A dollar a day is all they pay
For work on the boulevard.
Sh-ta-ra-dah-deh, sh-ta-dey,
Times is mighty hard.
A dollar a day is all they pay
For work on the boulevard.
Score in 6/8 Arr. E. C.
(from Sandburg)