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Thread #114311   Message #2439682
Posted By: Jim Dixon
13-Sep-08 - 10:40 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: I Took My Organ to the Party
Subject: Lyr Add: A BASSETT TO THE END
The same web site has this:

Copied from http://www.drinkingsongs.net/html/books-and-manuscripts/1950s/1950s-ribald-songs-with-music-(ms-and-mimeo-in-binder)/index.htm

(The PDF file mentioned there contains a lead sheet.)

A BASSETT TO THE END

Boston has always been the seat of culture.
For generations, it has always held the lead.
The Beeches and the Cabots, the Lowells and the Bassetts,
The families that were most meticulous, rather ridiculous, too.
When they tell just how well their families are treed --
Who's in the lead -- my friends, when it comes to forthright genealogy,
There are but two families who can go away back.
But away back - and who have kept track.
They are the bluest of the Back Bay's bluest blues.
To you they are the zenith of society's social snobs.
To them the Cabots and the Lowells (oh, my dear!) just slobs!
Who are they? Who are they?
Why they're the sons and daughters of the Beeches and the Bassetts.

CHORUS: For the sons of Beeches always marry Bassetts,
For a Bassett is a Bassett to the end.
Though the Beeches have the assets, it's the Bassetts have the classes.
Beeches assets put the Bassetts on the mend.
A Bassett never mingles with the masses.
To resort to that they'd never condescend;
But the Beeches have a chauffer who's a Bassett girl's gopher!
For a Bassett is a Bassett to the end.

For the sons of Beeches always marry Bassetts,
For a Bassett is a Bassett to the end.
The great wealth they have amassed, it's the Beeches, not the Bassetts.
Beeches assets put the Bassets on the mend, (SPOKEN: They think!)
In Pilgrim days, the Bassetts were "John Alden."
To Priscilla Dean, Miles Standish they did send.
But Priscilla up and tossed them, for John Alden double-crossed them
Oh a Bassett is definitely a Bassett to the end.
SPOKEN: The end.