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Thread #108112   Message #2246666
Posted By: Amos
27-Jan-08 - 09:22 PM
Thread Name: What did your Dad used to sing?
Subject: RE: What did your Dad used to sing?
Some Yale glee material. One he spontaneously came up with only once, on a rare family vacation:

"The Pope he leads a jolly life!
He's free from every care and strife.
He drinks the best of Rhenish wine!
I would the Popes gay life were mine.


The Sultan better pleases me.
He's free from care as he can be.
With fifty damsels for a wife!
Oh, I would have the Sultan's life!!

Oh when my sweetie kisses me,
\'Tis then the Sultan I would be.
But when good Rhenish wine I tope,
Why then I'd rather be the Pope!

He also taught me Buddy Bolden, the Sheik of Araby, Five Foot Two, and a number of other raggy piano tunes.


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