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Thread #76344 Message #1354087
Posted By: Jim Dixon
11-Dec-04 - 01:28 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Puddin' Head Jones (A Bryan, L Handman)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wooden Head, Pudden Head Jones
Eddie Cantor also sing this on "The Chase and Sanborn Radio Show," a 4-CD set.
Here's my partial transcription, assembled from several sound samples, but mostly from Eddie Cantor:
There was a most peculiar kid in our town, was always late for school.
He never learned to tell a verb from a noun, and always broke the rule.
Though they looked upon him as a clown, yet he wasn't such a....
CHORUS: Puddin'head Jones was fat and funny, dumber than sticks and stones....
...the teacher carried candy and ice-cream cones.
But who do you think the teacher married? Wooden-head, Puddin'-head Jones!
Puddin'head Jones became a doctor, fixing up nerves and bones.
Patients got well whenever they called in Wooden-head, Puddin'-head Jones.
Whenever babies have the colic, he gave them...