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Thread #18602   Message #903737
Posted By: Mark Cohen
05-Mar-03 - 12:04 AM
Thread Name: Help: Jimmy Crack Corn
Subject: Lyr Add: GIMME JACK COHN (Allan Sherman)
GIMME JACK COHN
Words, Allan Sherman; music, trad. "Jimmy Crack Corn"
As recorded by Allan Sherman on "My Son, the Folk Singer" (1962), where it is part of a medley called "Shticks and Stones"

Oh, salesmen come and salesmen go
And my best one is gone, I know
And if he don't come back to me
I'll have to close the factory

Gimme Jack Cohn and I don't care
Gimme Jack Cohn and I don't care
Gimme Jack Cohn and I don't care
But the bastard's gone away.