The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #85390   Message #4198420
Posted By: Jack Horntip
02-Mar-24 - 10:30 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Singing Telegram Cante Fable (Joke)
Subject: RE: Origins: Singing Telegram Cante Fable (Joke)
This guy delivers a telegram to an old lady.
“Could you make it a singing telegram for me. I love
singing telegrams .. .” “Lady,” he says. “Puh-leez ...”
she begs. “I do so love singing telegrams .. .” -
“Okay, you asked for it—da, da, da,
YOUR SON IS DEAD,
OH HOW HE BLED..

From the 1978 book Teen Angel by Sonia Pilcer.

See online here:

https://archive.org/details/teenangel0000pilc/page/96/mode/2up?q=singing