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Thread #1470   Message #5026
Posted By: Ralph Butts
09-May-97 - 01:44 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: One Meat Ball / One Meatball (Josh White)
Subject: Lyr Add: ONE MEATBALL (Josh White)
Bo......Here's the song exactly as done by Josh White. Repeated from my post to the earlier thread, but with format more carefully shown. The recording is from Longines Symphonette "Legendary Folk Songs". All the songs in the 5-record set are by vanguard artists....Tiger

One Meatball—recorded by Josh White

A little man walked up and down,
He found an eating place in town,
He read the menu through and through,
To see what fifteen cents could do.

He told the waiter near at hand,
The simple dinner he had planned.
The guests were startled, one and all,
To hear that waiter loudly call, "What,

The little man felt ill at ease,
Said, "Some bread, sir, if you please."
The waiter hollered down the hall,
"You gets no bread with one meatball.

The little man felt very bad,
One meatball was all he had,
And in his dreams he hears that call,
"You gets no bread with one meatball.