Brown, North Carolina Folklore, vol. 5, I. P. Schinhan, The Music of the Folk Songs", has a musical score.

Life is a Toil, a version in Cazden et al., 1982, Folk Songs of the Catskills, has a more complex musical score.
Notes- with the title The Housekeeper's Woes, a 5-stanza text attributed to H. A. Fletcher appeared in the It's Naughty but It's Nice Songster of 1871.
A more complete 9-stanza version by "H. A. Fechter" is printed in R. A. Saalfield's folio, Comical, Topical and Mottoe Songs c. 1887.
This is the version posted by Jim Dixon (all verses also given in Folk Songs of the Catskills).