There is a Boarding House
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/Mark Twain
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
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Lyrics:
There is a boarding-house, far far away,
Where they have ham and eggs, three times a day.
Oh, how the boarders yell,
When they hear that dinner bell.
They give that landlord hell
Three times a day.
"There is a Boarding House" is a parody by Mark Twain of the hymn tune<br> "Happy Land". It appears in his novel The American Claimant (1892).<br> In Laura Ingalls Wilder's book By the Shores of Silver Lake Laura<br> recounts railroad men singing the "shocking" lyrics of what is evidently<br> Mark Twain's parody and notes that they stopped when they saw Ma.<br>
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