The Musical Trust
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FUN FOR VERY LITTLE FOLK
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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