Them was the good old days, in Davenport, Scott County Iowa . 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, raggy swing.
Them was the good old days, in Davenport, Scott County Iowa . 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, raggy swing. O, boy! Now—second spasm: We immeday-ut-ly raised our hats. And fond-a-ly she replied. I never shall forget That lovely aftah-noon (pause). When we met her by the fountain in the park. Say! Did them guys get a hand? Listen, sport—youknow what theyre feedin these movie birds, that does happy-endin bunk in the pichers, in the applause line? Well, thatllkinda give you some idea of what they gave Dan and Hay inthe old days, only it aint one-two-six. 97. THEM WAS THE GOOD OLD DAYS Then, there was Billy Kelly. No dance was regularsteppin unless Billy trotted out after supper to do theSailors Hornpipe to the strains of Strassers. At clog^, jig,or reel, Billy had it forty ways on all the soft-shoe artists atthe local shindigs. Then, folks could always depend on Dan Leonard, TomRoss, Steve Costello, Grunter ODonnell, or some other classyhoofers to do Fred Wilsons clog or the Silver Showerjig after the musicians had packed aw^ay their supper. Thats when Colonel Hipwell got his rep as leader ofthe band. Any percession that thought it was a percession,without the colonel leadin the band, wasnt no them days M. J. Malloy introduced brick pavin andbathtubs in Northwest Davenport—upsettin all dope con-cernin the Saturday evenin plunge in the wash-basin, as folksthought is was dangerous to take a bath moren once a Porter held the ribbons on Lucy,the speediest li
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