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EBOOK PUNCH ***
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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
VOL. 102.
March 5th, 1892.
POPULAR SONGS RE-SUNG.
Great is the might of the Meaningless! Especially in a rattling refrain
or a rousing chorus. Big drum effects are always popular. What wonder
clever Miss LOTTIE COLLINS'S "_Ta-ra-ra-boom-de-ay_!" is all the rage?
"Her greatest creation" (_vide_ advertisements), "sung and danced with
the utmost _verve_," has taken the town. Will it "mar its use" to
attach a meaning to it? Let us try:--
No. VI.--THAT'S HOW WE BOOM TO-DAY!
[Illustration]
I.
A SMART "mug-lumberer" one must be
To-day, to "fetch" Sassiety;
Not too strict, of swagger free,
And as "fly" as "fly" can be.
Ever pushing, ever bold,
(Else one's left "out in the cold")
Thus Success you grasp, and hold.
And may sing, though Pecksniffs scold,--
_Chorus._
Tra-la! We "boom" to-day!
That's how we "boom" to-day!
Bra-va! We "boom" to-day!
Hoo-rah! We "boom" to-day!
[_And so on, six times or more.
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