Show how a famous song was written Y WARMAN railroad poet and writer of the rail has never told how he came to write sweet maric the facts in the case were these cy became interested in the creeda chronicle a daily paper published in the mining camp of that name some fifteen years ago he was the manager of the paper and when he made periodical trips to denver he used to leave word with his partner that he want the paper to come out any morning without some verse of his on the editorial page once he went away and was gone for three weeks leaving just enough verses to last until he got back on the day of his arrival he was tired and went early to bed in the room chich was built off the business office of the paper late that night the foreman of the composing room announced that there were none of cys verses on the hook his partner went into cys room and woke him up no poems 1 he shouted cy got up sat down in his pajamas and reeled off the lines of sweet maric ive been thinking of those lines Q all the way down on the train he said they were put on the hook and presently there appeared before the night editor the figure of old joe walker the nonpareil man and the possessor of the choicest vocabulary of invective that was ever achieved in one lifetime the air was blue caesar jechil likins do you think im going to set such cring lines just listen to this theres a secret in my heart sweet mariel will you tell me what in all eternity that means if lies got a secret in his heart why in the name of the prophets dont he go up to dick plunkett or somebody say dr pratt an get it cut oui why must I 1 be the long suffering that has to set such things in good new type dut the verses were set in type to the accompaniment of diverting conversation on the part of walker next morning they appeared in the chronicle and shortly afterward they came to the attention of raman moore who set theato music moore and warman cleaned up about in royalties |