Here's my transcription from the recording at The Internet Archive:


A LETTER FROM HARRY
As sung by "Yogi Yorgesson" (Harry Stewart)

I just got a letter from Harry.
I sure did enjoy it a lot.
This letter from Harry surprised me.
I thought he was off on the yacht.

He says that his daughter is singing.
She's doing the best that she can.
Everyone thinks she sings pretty,
Especially the newspaper man.[1]

Harry says he bought new neckties,
The kind that you tie in a bow.
When it comes to values in neckties,
Harry's the boy that should know.[2]

Harry's first hobby is letters.
Writer's cramp ain't one of his faults.
His next hobby is his piano,
And playing his favorite waltz.

SPOKEN: Good old Harry! Bless his little old heart! I can hear him now playing that song of his: "Carry Me Back to Old Missouri."[3] You know, Harry writes like he talks, with simple words, words that even a Missouri muleskinner can understand.[4] Everyone is impressed by Harry's letters. In fact, when he writes a note or plays it, people say, "...(?) my goodness!" You know some fellow said something about his daughter's singing. Harry just took his pen in hand and wrote this fellow a nice cheery little thank-you note, and would you believe it? Harry wrote a letter to all the fellows in the United States Marines. Ja, and they answered it, too.[5]

I just got a letter from Harry.
Its message was cheerful and bright.
He says that he's sending more letters.
A different kind he has to write.

Maybe he'll send you a letter,
'Cause he's sending out quite a few.
You'll know when you get Harry's letter,
'Cause it starts with his "greetings" to you.[6]


NOTES:

1. From Wikipedia: On December 6, 1950, music critic Paul Hume wrote a critical review of a concert by Margaret Truman: "Miss Truman is a unique American phenomenon with a pleasant voice of little size and fair quality ... (she) cannot sing very well ... is flat a good deal of the time — more last night than at any time we have heard her in past years ... has not improved in the years we have heard her ... (and) still cannot sing with anything approaching professional finish."

In response, Truman wrote a scathing response: "I've just read your lousy review of Margaret's concert. I've come to the conclusion that you are an 'eight ulcer man on four ulcer pay.' It seems to me that you are a frustrated old man who wishes he could have been successful. When you write such poppy-cock as was in the back section of the paper you work for, it shows conclusively that you're off the beam and at least four of your ulcers are at work. Some day I hope to meet you. When that happens you'll need a new nose, a lot of beefsteak for black eyes, and perhaps a supporter below! Pegler, a gutter snipe, is a gentleman alongside you. I hope you'll accept that statement as a worse insult than a reflection on your ancestry."

2. Harry Truman's profession, before going into politics, was running a haberdashery shop in Kansas City.

3. Those words do not appear in Truman's signature tune, "The Missouri Waltz" a.k.a. "HUSH-A-BYE, MA BABY. Yorgesson is confusing it, perhaps deliberately, with CARRY ME BACK TO OLD VIRGINNY.

4. No doubt a reference to Truman's reputation for "salty" talk.

5. From Wikipedia: "Both Truman and [Secretary of Defense Louis A.] Johnson had a particular antipathy to Navy and Marine Corps budget requests. Truman proposed disbanding the Marine Corps entirely as part of the 1948 defense reorganization plan but the idea was abandoned after a letter-writing campaign and the intervention of influential Marine veterans."

6. Letters from a draft board, notifying the recipient that he was being conscripted, traditionally began with "Greetings."