I heard this song alot when I was a kid. I didn't know what a boulevard was but the song sounded very soothing. It just went sh ta ra ta dey sh ta dey times is mighty hard, a dollar a day is all they pay for work on the boulevard. Heard it from my grandma. Yes she was Irish. Interesting, isn't it? It still rings in my head after all these years. It was going through my head today, so I looked this up on google. Must be going through some other people's heads too still. I was wondering if there was more to it also, but I guess perhaps there wasn't.