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Thread #19855   Message #205617
Posted By: raredance
02-Apr-00 - 11:59 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: A Gay Caballero (Frank Crumit, L Klein)
Subject: Lyr Add: THE GAY CABALLERO (from Ed Cray)
Copmparing the Silverman text with text "A" from Cray, you can easily see the logical error in the Silverman text. That Silverman text describes the surgical excision of both "latraballeros", however at the end he seems to have a dried up one remaining. Bad math or weird biology?

Here is the Cray "B" text with is rather different and less surgical although it refers to the woman using a masculine looking word "senorio". I guess rhyme trumps gender.

There once was a gay Don d'Ilio
Who lived in a high white castilio
And he played with his trototoilio
And the works of his raggle de bam, bam! bam!

One day to that high white castilio
There came a gay young senorio [sic]
And she played with trototoilio
And the works of his raggle de bam, bam! bam!

Next day that gay Don d'Ilio
Laid her down on a soft sofailio
And he eased in his trototoilio
And the works of his raggle de bam, bam! bam!

Nine days later that gay Don d'Ilio
Gnashed his teeth with rage at the senorio
And gazed with sorrow on this trototoilio
And the works of his raggle de bam, bam! bam!

He wnet to se Dr. Gonzalio
Who told him he had the clapilio
And he gave him a bottle of castorio
For the works of his raggle de bam, bam! bam!

rich r