The Musical Trust

: FUN FOR VERY LITTLE FOLK
: Boys And Girls Bookshelf

By D. K. Stevens



There was once a man who could execute

"Old Zip Coon" on a yellow flute,

And several other tunes to boot,

But he couldn't make a penny with his tootle-ti-toot

Tootle-ootle-ootle--tootle-ti-toot!

Tootle-ootle-ootle--tootle-ti-toot!

Though he played all day on his yellow flute,

He couldn't
ake a penny with his tootle-ti-toot.



One day he met a singular

Quaint old man with a big tuba,

Who said: "I've travelled wide and far

But I haven't made a penny with my oom-pah-pah."

Oom-pah! Oom-pah! Oom-pah-pah!

Oom-pah! Oom-pah! Oom-pah-pah!

Though he played all day on his big tuba

He couldn't make a penny with his oom-pah-pah.



Then they met two men who were hammering

On a big bass drum and a cymbal thing,

Who said: "We've banged since early spring

And we haven't made a penny with our boom-zing-zing."

Boom-zing! Boom-zing! Boom-zing-zing!

Boom-b-b-boom-boom--zing-zing!

Though the banged on the drum and the cymbal thing

They couldn't make a penny with their boom-zing-zing.



So the man with the flute

Played tootle-ti-toot,

And the other man he played oom-pah,

While the men with the drum and the cymbal thing

Went: boom-b-b-boom-boom--zing-zing!

And they travelled wide and far.

Together they made the welkin ring

With a Tootle-ootle! Oom-pah! Boom-zing-zing!

Tootle-ootle! Oom-pah! Boom-zing-zing!

Tootle-ootle! Oom-pah! Boom-zing-zing!

And Oh! the pennies the people fling!

When they hear the tootle-oom-pah-boom-zing-zing!



Katherine Maynadier Browne



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