. Cobb's Bill-of-fare. s Bi//-of-Fare sing. From time to time insidious effortshave been made to work in songs for bassesdealing with the love affairs of Bedouinsand the joys of life down in a coal mine;but after all, to a bass singer who reallyvalues his gift of song and wishes to makethe most of it, there is but one suitable selec-tion, beginning as follows: Ro-hocked in the cra-hadle of the da-heep,I la-hay me down in pe-heace to sa-leep! Collutn and pa-heaceful be my sa-leepRo-hocked in the cra-hadle of the da-heep! That is the orthodox offering for a basses of the world have alwa
. Cobb's Bill-of-fare. s Bi//-of-Fare sing. From time to time insidious effortshave been made to work in songs for bassesdealing with the love affairs of Bedouinsand the joys of life down in a coal mine;but after all, to a bass singer who reallyvalues his gift of song and wishes to makethe most of it, there is but one suitable selec-tion, beginning as follows: Ro-hocked in the cra-hadle of the da-heep,I la-hay me down in pe-heace to sa-leep! Collutn and pa-heaceful be my sa-leepRo-hocked in the cra-hadle of the da-heep! That is the orthodox offering for a basses of the world have always usedit, I believe, and generally to what I have been able to ascertain Ijudge that it was first written for use on theArk. Shem sang it probably. If there isanything in this doctrine of heredity Hamspecialized in banjo solos and soft-shoedancing, and Japhet, I take it, was the tenor—he certainly had a tenor-sounding kind ofa name. So it must have been Shem, andundoubtedly he sang it when the animals. SHEM UNDOUBTEDLY SANG ITWHEN THE ANIMALS WERE HUNGRY^ CobPs Bill-of-Fare 63 were hungry, so as to drown out the soundsof their roaring. So this, his descendant—this chip off theold cheese, as it were—stands up on the plat-form facing you, with his chest well ex-tended to show his red suspender strapspeeping coyly out from the arm openingsof his vest, and he inserts one hand into hisbosom, and over and over again he tells youthat he now contemplates laying himselfdown in peace to sleep—which is more thananybody else on the block will be able todo; and he rocks you in the cradle of thedeep until you are as seasick as a cow. Youcould stand that, maybe, if only he wouldntmake faces at you while he sings. Some dayI am going to take the time off to make sci-entific research and ascertain why all basssingers make faces when they are theres some psychological reason forthis, and if there isnt it should be stoppedby legislative enactment. When Sing-B
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