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Thread #27889   Message #756740
Posted By: Jim Dixon
29-Jul-02 - 11:58 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: put down that straw
Subject: Lyr Add: PUT AWAY THAT STRAW (C P Dockstader)
Transcribed from the sheet music at the Library of Congress site:
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/sm1881.01303 (The LOC also has band arrangements for this tune.)

PUT AWAY THAT STRAW (LAUGHING SONG.)
Words and music by Chas. P. Dockstader, 1881.

I used to know a little colored gal. You ought to hear her laugh.
When she would smile, you could hear her a mile. Her mouth 'most split in half.
To hear her laugh the folks would come for miles and miles about.
I'd tickle her chin with a piece of straw and oh how she would shout.

CHORUS: Stop that tickling! Ha! Ha! Ha!
Quit that tickling! Ha! Ha! Ha!
Oh! Pshaw! I wish you'd put away that straw! Ha! Ha! Ha!
Stop that tickling! Ha! Ha! Ha!
Quit that tickling! Ha! Ha! Ha!
Ain't you going to stop that tickling of my jaw?

I took her to a circus once to see what she would do.
She began to laugh when the show commenced and she never did get through.
She laughed so loud, so long, so strong, on her mouth there lit a fly.
She lost her breath, fly tickled her to death, and she laughed until she died.