Mudcat Café message #1555940

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Thread #84330 Message #1555940
Posted By: GUEST
04-Sep-05 - 12:27 PM
Thread Name: happy? - Sept 4 (1st newsboy)
Subject: happy? - Sept 4 (1st newsboy)

Newspaper Carrier Day
[Ok, ok, that could really be a "Happy!" --- Editor's choice]

celebrates the momentous day the NY Sun hired Barney Flaherty as the first newsboy: 9/4/1833.


          I sell the morning paper, sir, my name is Jimmy Brown.
          Everybody knows that I'm the newsboy of the town.
          You can hear me yelling "Morning Star", running along the street.
          Got no hat upon my head, no shoes upon my feet.
  
                  One of (my) Tinker's favorite songs, "Jimmy Brown the Newsboy," 
                  Recorded by Flatt and Scruggs, © Carter Family
  
  Tom Paley, in his much younger days, sang:
  
          I smell the toilet papers, sir, my name is Jimmy Brown
          And everybody knows that I'm the pervert of the town....
  
                  [thanx (so much) to dick greenhaus]