Origins: The Little Miss Doll

Subject: Origins: The Little Miss Doll
From: GUEST,Cindy
Date: 09 Mar 06 - 07:38 PM

Song my mother sang to me as a child and it is very old but I have never known where it came from or just how old it is. My little grandchildren love it just as I did...including my little grandsons. I would very much like to know where it came from and possibly how old it is.

Lyrics:
A little miss doll
And a little rag doll
And a dolly imported from France
Were sitting one day on a shelf of a store
With a doll that could wind up and dance
When all of a sudden a shouting was heard
A scream that rang out through the store
This was the complaint of the Little Miss Doll
That made such an awful uproar.

I've got a pain in my sawdust
That's what's the matter with me
Someone please hurry and get me a fan
Someone else run for the medicine man
Everyone hurry as fast as you can
Cause I've got a pain in my sawdust.

Any help appreciated.

Subject: RE: Origins: The Little Miss Doll
From: Joe Offer
Date: 09 Mar 06 - 09:10 PM

http://www.happythoughtsnewsletter.com/51718.html has more of it:

"I've got a Pain in my Sawdust"
 
A little bisque doll and a little rag doll
And a dolly imported from France
Were sitting one day on the shelf of the store
With a doll that could wind up and dance;
When all of a sudden the shopkeeper heard
A scream that rang out thro' the store,
And this was the plaint of the little bisque doll
That made such an awful uproar;
 
Refrain: I've got a pain in my sawdust,
That's what's the matter with me;
Something is wrong with my little inside,
I'm just as sick as can be.
Don't let me faint, someone get me a fan,
Someone else run for the medicine man,
Ev'ryone hurry as fast as you can,
I've got a pain in my sawdust.
 
They took her away in a hospital van
And the whole town was filled with the blues,
For ev'ryone thought it was quite an odd thing,
And the papers all printed the news;
The surgeons looked wise and they all shook their heads
And asked her just where she was sick;
"I think it's 'appendisawdust'," she exclaimed,
"And won't you please do something quick?"
 
I've got a pain...
 
Oh, sad was the day for the little bisque doll,
For they cut all her stitches away,
And looked for the seat of the terrible ache;
"'Twas a delicate task," they all say,
For none of the surgeons had ever before  
Performed on a dolly's inside,
They tried to restuff her but didn't know how,
And this was her wail as she died;
 
I've got a pain...

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This page has a quote from a defunct Kididdles message board:

That page includes in its list:
"I've Got A Pain In My Sawdust" (1909) w. Henry Edward Warner m. Herman Avery Wade

That information helped me find an archived comment on a now discontinued message board called KIDiddles[1] discussing this very song:

"There's a songbook that has the lyrics and score for that song. Go to your local library and ask them to interlibrary loan it for you - there are 37 copies of the book in the US. Here's the info: Songs From the Golden Eras, 1900-1929
ed. Ronny Schiff MCA/Mills OCLC 1894095 "
[posted May 2, 2003, by KellyG629]

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I found at another site that the song was recorded by Tiny Time on WITH LOVE AND KISSES FROM TINY TIM: CONCERT IN FAIRYLAND - BOUQUET SLP 711