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Publication date
1916
Language
English
Adapted from
Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay (Ta-Ra-Ra-Boom-Der-E) written by Henry Sayers
Comments
Sayers' melody with rewritten lyrics full of irony in 1914. First published in IWW's Match, 1916, Joe Hill memorial edition their "Little Red Songbook." The first verse:

"I had a job once threshing wheat, worked sixteen hours with hands and feet.
And when the moon was shining bright, they kept me working all the night.
One moonlight night, I hate to tell, I “accidentally” slipped and fell.
My pitchfork went right in between some cog wheels of that thresh-machine."
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