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Thread #139762   Message #3208256
Posted By: Jim Dixon
17-Aug-11 - 11:30 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Songs of The Happiness Boys/Jones & Hare
Subject: Lyr Add: GID AP, GARIBALDI
GID AP, GARIBALDI (1927)
Words by Howard Johnson and Billy Moll; music by Harry Warren.
New York: Shapiro, Bernstein & Co., ©1927.
As sung by Billy Jones & Ernest Hare (The Happiness Boys)

—Gid-ap-a, Garibaldi! Nice stromberries, pinanos, peenappleses. Whoa, Garibaldi! What you want, lady?
—You got a nice-a fresh-a veg'tabells?
—I got-a nice-a radicchio, a cappucia, a spinaci, carroote. What do you want, lady?

—I don't care for something today.

Tony has a pony what you call-a nice-a the horse.
With a wagon he would sell the vegetables, o' course.
Now Garibaldi, he's the name of Tony's nice-a the pony.
Tony drove him all around in Little Italy,
And when the lady she's-a refuse to buy,
Tony he's-a get mad and start to cry:

—What's the matter, Mariuch?
—I no like-a you cabuche.
—No? —No. —Gid-ap, Garibaldi.
What's the matter, Antoinette?
—I no like-a you spaghetti
—No? —No. —Gid-ap, Garibaldi.
Up-a-town, down-a-town, he's-a go all day,
And, Sacramento! He give-a the stuff away!
—What's the matter Isabelle?
—How's you garlic? She's-a smell?
—Oh! Gid-ap, Garibaldi.

Tony knew the first-a name of every lady he'd meet.
He would yell at all o' them as he's-a go down the street,
And when they'd poke-a fun at Garibaldi, Tony said,
"Don'-a holler 'Oats!' to him or else he's drop-a dead."
And when the veg'tabells commence to rot
Tony cried this job is good for naught.

—What's the matter, Josephine?
—I no like-a the string-a-bean.
—No? —No. —Gid-ap, Garibaldi.
What's the matter, Rosemarie?
—I no like-a the green-a peas.
—No? —No. —Gid-ap, Garibaldi.
One day I saw-a Marianna
Squeeze-a big bunch o' bananas.
Tony look an' holler, "Please,
Try coconuts to squeeze."
—What's the matter Marguerite?
—I no like-a your stuff to eat.
—Whoa! Gid-ap, Garibaldi.

Oh, oh, oh,
The business is-a slow.
La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la.
La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la.
Hey, hey, hey,
Ev'rybody walk away.
Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!
Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!
If you no like-a the stromberry, the gooseberry, the blackberry,
If you no like-a no berry, I give you the raspberry!

—What's the matter, Rosabelle?
My peenapple she's-a swell.
No? Gid-ap, Garibaldi.
What's the matter, Carmentine?
Try-a the lemon. She's-a sweet.
No? Gid-ap, Garibaldi.
And when the pony's ribs they stick out from-a the side,
They cry, "Hey, Tony, give-a the horse a nice-a big-a ride!"
Then-a Tony he's-a called
"I sell-a the horse but he's-a sold."
No? Gid-ap, Garibaldi.
Whoa! Stop! Back! Hop! Hey, wop!* What do you say?
No? Gid-ap, Garibaldi.


[I assume the horse was named after Giuseppe Garibaldi, and the name was correctly spelled on the record, but misspelled by whoever posted the MP3 at the Internet Archive.

[* At least, that's what I think I hear. The word "wop" would be unacceptable by today's standards.]