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Originally Posted by Pastor Ezekiel
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I loved that! I'd never seen or heard the song before.
Thank you so much for harking up that angel who was Jimmy Durante.
From Gallagher and Shean's one-hit-wonder Victor recording of 1922,
a recall by personal memory of their lyric from the shellac disk:
Mister Gallagher, oh Mister Gallagher,
Women's Rights is turning out to be a joke.
They've been given the right to vote
but just to get your goat
in public places now
they demand the right to smoke.
You don't know the half of it--
Why Mister Shean, why Mister Shean,
they also love to gamble on the green;
they indulge in games of chance where you can lose your shirt and pants...
I'm speaking of women Mr. Gallagher!
That makes no difference Mr. Shean!
and this:
...There was a tiny negro baby born last night
No! Yes!
Just popped out at eight;
weighed a half-a-pound I think.
How can a baby be so dark and yet so light?
Why Mister Shean, why Mister Shean,
that is the funniest colored skin I've ever seen.
But I know a hen as black as night
and she can lay an egg that's white...
Why that's nothing, Mr. Gallagher.
No? Can you do it, Mr. Shean?
Thanks Zeke. You're the best.
PP