Judy:

THIRD VERSE!

At twenty-one I thought I would to my sweetheart be married;
The people in the neighborhood had said too long we'd tarried.
So off to church we went right quick, determined to get wed;
I had not long been in there, when the parson to me said: CHORUS

Words & music by J.J. Sullivan. "Sullivan, comedian and acrobatic dancer, home for vacation and searching in the attic for possible make-up material, came across an old plug hat, too small for his head and absurdly tall for his short, plump figure. Wearing it, he ventured into the street and was ridiculed and jeered at by a group of small boys, who yelled: 'Where did you get that hat?' The phrase gave him the title for his celebrated song, one of the best-remembered hits of 1888, which for years after was sung and played everywhere." (From "Songs of the Gilded Age," by Margaret Bradford Boni).