happy? - June 2

Subject: happy? - June 2
From: Abby Sale
Date: 02 Jun 05 - 07:46 AM

PT Barnum's first tour= 6/2/1835.

  	   Roll up, roll up, lydies and gentlemen!  Come and see the
	Cam-uel. -- Hay most peculiar hanimal wot heats straw and
  	shits through a tri-hanuglar horiface: hence the Pyramids.
  
  	   Roll up, roll up, lydies and gents! Here we have the Leo-
  	pard: 365 spots, one for each die of the year. -- Wots that,
  	lydy? -- That's right. -- George, lift its tail, and show the
  	lydy leap-year.
  
  	   Roll up, roll up, lydies and gentlemen.  Come and see the
  	Wild Cat. -- It ain't got no arsehole -- that's what makes it
  	so bloody wild!
  
  	   Roll up, roll up, and see the Wala Wala bird: flies round
  	in hever-diminishing circles 'til it flies hup its own funda-
  	mental horiface and disappears!
 

"Showmanship," Gershon Legman, "Bawdy Monologues,"
Southern Folklore Quarterly 40(1976) & see Silverman, Dirty Song Book

This great classic comes in many styles from the entire English-speaking world. Some other titles:
"The Wild West Show," "The Hamburg Show," "The Raree Show," "The Amburg Show."

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