Them was the good old days, in Davenport, Scott County Iowa . lar stuff. How that fat wopcould sprinkle the notes! Oh, boy! Didnt make a bita difwhat key a stew party started to sing in, that harpist couldpick em right off. Joe passed the hat after every tune, buthe never passed passed a stein or a snit. Old time fiddlers done all the music tricks at dances, ormebbe some professor would play the piano with his hands,Nowdays them dishpans is played with the hoofs, and aplayer that knows music is nine, ten—out! Any hunk withnut enough to change the needle on a talkin machine canline up with the
Them was the good old days, in Davenport, Scott County Iowa . lar stuff. How that fat wopcould sprinkle the notes! Oh, boy! Didnt make a bita difwhat key a stew party started to sing in, that harpist couldpick em right off. Joe passed the hat after every tune, buthe never passed passed a stein or a snit. Old time fiddlers done all the music tricks at dances, ormebbe some professor would play the piano with his hands,Nowdays them dishpans is played with the hoofs, and aplayer that knows music is nine, ten—out! Any hunk withnut enough to change the needle on a talkin machine canline up with the old masters now. Another famous music duel was fought between SoapySmith with Barnums calleyope and Fatty Saunders withTrinity chimes. It was circus day in August, and Barnumsbig top was pitched in the old fair grounds out on Bradystreet. As the tail of the parade rounded the top of Bradystreet hill, Soapy took a crack at Swanee River, and Fatty,on practice duty that mornin, answered with the SweetBye and Bye. Soapy took up the challenge, and when his 111.
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