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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 Excerpt: ...that face is coming very soon, and they all get ready to burst themselves. "I haven't a doubt, if you get in, The Golden Age will soon begin--But I Don't Like--your FACE." solution: It comes of my having a sniff (see page 83). At this point several of the audience will simply slide off their seats on to the floor and wallow about there, snorting. The next verse had better be a love-verse. Thompson wooed a lovely maid Every evening in the shade, Meaning, I am much afraid, To hide his ugly head... Head is not very good, I admit, but we must have said in the last line, and as we were mad enough to have rhymes in the first verse we have got to go on with it. But when he proposed one night--Did it by electric light--Mabel, who retained her sight, Just looked at him and said:--Now you see the idea? "Oh, Mr. Thompson, It isn't any good; I shouldn't like to marry you, So I won't pretend I should; I know that you have riches And a house in Eaton Place... (Here all the audience pulls out its handkerchief) I haven't a doubt that you must be The properest possible match for me, But I Don't Like--your FACE." I have got another verse to this song, but I will not give it to you now, as I think the Editor is rather bored with it. It is fortunate for Mr. Bubble that he does not have to perform before an audience of Editors. Having written the lyric the next thing to do is to get a composer to compose music for it, and then you get it published. This is most difficult, as composers are people who don't ever keep appointments, and music publishers like locking up lyrics in drawers till the mice have got at the chorus and the whole thing is out of date. By the time that this song is ready Mr. Bubble may quite possibly have exhausted the face-motif altogethe...
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- PublisherRareBooksClub.com
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 123230266X
- ISBN 13 9781232302667
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages30
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