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Show One of the Best Comic Opera Songs Ever Written In the September American Magazine Maga-zine Harry B. Smith writes an extremely ex-tremely entertaining article entitled, "Some Inside Information About the Musical Play' Mr. Smith has written writ-ten the dialogues and lyrics of one hundred and thirty musical pieces, involving between three and four thousand songs. He and Reginald De Koven wrote "Robin Hood" which netted Mr. Smith more than $225,000 in royalties. At times Mr. Smith's royalties amounted to two- thousand dollars a week. The present article is filled with good stories of old-time stories and famous comic operas. Reference is made to Dan) Daly; the famous comic opera singer, long since dead, who sang the best song that Mr. Smith ever wrote. This song was in "Tho Rounders" and was entitled, "Same Old Story." The words follow: "History, and nature too, repeat themselves, them-selves, they Bay. (Men aro only habit's slaves; we see It every day. Life has (done its best for me. I find It tiresome still; For nothing's anything at all, and ev'rything is nil. "Same old get-up, dress, and tub. Same old breakfast; same old club. Same old feeling; same old blue; Same old story nothing now. "Life consists of paying bills as long as you havo health. Woman? She'll be fond of you as long as you have wealth. Think sometimes of marriage, if the right girl I could strike; But tho more I see of girls, the more they are alike. "Samo old giggles, smiles, and eyes, bame old kisses; same old sighs; Same old quarrel; same adieu; Same old story nothing new. "Go to theaters sometimes to see the latest plays Samo old plots I played with in my happy childhood days. Hero same; same vlllian; same old heroine in tears, Starving, homeless in the snow with diamonds In her ears. "Same stern father making bluffs; Leading man all teeth and cuffs; Samo soubrottes still twenty-two; Same old jokes, too nothing new. "Friend of mine got married; in a year or so, a boy! Father simply foolish in his fond paternal pa-ternal joy. Talked about his 'kiddy,' and became a fearful bore. Just as if a baby never had been born before. "Same old crying only more; ' Same old business, walking floor; Same old 'kitchy-coochy-coo.' Same old baby nothing new." -no |