Them was the good old days, in Davenport, Scott County Iowa . The Carnival City Minstrels. Come on, sport! Push the clockback a ripvanwinkle notch or two—to the days of Old Hoss Hoey andEzra Kendall; back to the old daysof Barlow, Wilson, Primrose, andWest; back to the days of BillyEmersons minstrels, Sam Lucas,and Billy Kersands; back to thedays when Seth Crane and FayTempleton sang the Gobble songin the Mascot; when Dan Homeand Ferd Haymeyer pleased thefolks at Burnss ball with theirsong-and-dance specialty, Strol-ling Through the Park. Them was the good old days! All wide open and every-thi
Them was the good old days, in Davenport, Scott County Iowa . The Carnival City Minstrels. Come on, sport! Push the clockback a ripvanwinkle notch or two—to the days of Old Hoss Hoey andEzra Kendall; back to the old daysof Barlow, Wilson, Primrose, andWest; back to the days of BillyEmersons minstrels, Sam Lucas,and Billy Kersands; back to thedays when Seth Crane and FayTempleton sang the Gobble songin the Mascot; when Dan Homeand Ferd Haymeyer pleased thefolks at Burnss ball with theirsong-and-dance specialty, Strol-ling Through the Park. Them was the good old days! All wide open and every-thing, and none of these crepe-hangers on crabbin duty. Lets see—that song warbled somethin like this: While strollin through the park one day. One lovely afternoon in May I was taken by surprise By a pair of roguish eyes (pause). And we met her by the fountain in the park. Some class to that, bo! Georgie Cohan nor Irv Berlinaint got nothin on nobody in arrangin them kind of words,has they? Then the dance—a sort of cubist non-com clog,with rollickin, rag
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