Hallelujah, I'm A Bum by Harry "Haywire Mac" McClintock

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Hallelujah, I'm A Bum
By: Harry "Haywire Mac" McClintock

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Duration:	2:36
Release Date:	1926 (sfjpk30)
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Released By:	Victor Talking Machine Co. (21343-B) (Shalom)
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credited on the label simply to "MAC" (in quotes), with "Harry McClintock" in parentheses underneath (Shalom)

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Rejoice and be glad
For the springtime has come
We can throw down our shovels
And go on the bum

(chorus) Halleluya I'm a bum
Halleluya bum again
Halleluya give us a handout
To revive us again.

The springtime has come
And I'm just out of jail
Without any money
Without any bail

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I went to a house
And I rapped on the door
And the lady says bum bum
You've been here before

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I like Jim Hill [1]
He's a good friend of mine
That is why I am hiking
Down Jim Hill's main line

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I went to a house
And I asked for some bread
And the lady says bum bum
The baker is dead

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"Why don't you work
Like other men do?"
Now how can I work
When there's no work to do

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"Why don't you save
All the money you earn?"
If I didn't eat
I'd have money to burn

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I don't like work
And work don't like me
And that is the reason
I am so hungry

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[1] James J. "Jim" Hill was the president of the Great Northern Railroad, now part of BNSF. He made a point of getting to know many of his workers personally, right down to the older members of the track gangs, and had been known to roll up his sleeves and pitch in alongside them when there was work to be done and not enough personnel to do it. Not surprisingly, he inspired fierce loyalty amongst his employees. Not to be confused with *Joe* Hill, a radical labor leader... (Shalom)

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	Marcus Tee Offline - Participant & Donator - 09-01-18 09:58 PM - 6 years ago
	This song was mentioned in the 1956 Science Fiction short story TIME TRANSFER, by Arthur Selling Originally published in Time Transfer and Other Stories. "The defiant strains of Hallelujah, I’m a Bum and The Big Rock Candy Mountain went fading into the black emptiness around them."

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