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Show d- . ' ' ' J More Truth Than Poetry - tt -Sjr JAMES J. MONTAGUS EMPHATICALLY W0 BANANAft. . The songs wa anng In en earlier age, Uka "Delay- and "Sweet Maria" -She Waa Only a Bird In n Glided Cage And "Under tha. Bamboo True," ' We alwaya fancied were trashy stuff . Till tha newer oneo eama along. Bat our Judgment wa find waa a bit too roug s, For we ve heard tho "ananaN pong. Tbe tyiico that Chorion HT. barrta errot Wo beard with n acorn ful ear, Whea their pbonographod accents need to float from mualo gtoreo far aad near. But we'd Heton to 4 Just Aa the feu a Want Down" That the Wlttmarkg used to crooo. And think real muani bad eons to town inoa ws've heard the "Banana tuna Wa never Imagined) that "Just Ono Olrf Waa tha work of a lofty brow. Or could be eat earned an a claaalo pearl But wa think Ita a wonder powt In Old Kentucky" and '"Honey Boy We've often refused to sing. But we'd sing em both with abounding Joy Since we've beard tha "baaaaa' thing. We learn that tho c'.d ones am coming back. Tha publishers say they tear That mo-dorm composers lark the knack - Of pleaaing toe public ear. We didn't care mnch for these old tlma tare In .Nineteen Hundred and Eight. But in these benighted "Banana' das Thy aem to ua aim ply great. iCuprright. 19ZX, by Ue bndicatn, lncj I |