The pop-corn man (James Gerald Dailey)
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(Posted 2024-04-08) CPDL #80140:
- Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2024-04-08). Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 678 kB Copyright: Personal
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General Information
Title: The pop-corn man
Composer: James Gerald Dailey
Lyricist: Clinton Scotlandcreate page
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1897 Armstrong & Fillmore
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Original text and translations
English text
There’s a queer little man lives down the street,
Where two of the broadest highways meet,
In a queer little house that’s made of glass,
With the windows open as you pass,
And a low little roof that’s nearly flat;
And a chimney as black as your pa’s best hat.
Oh, the house was built on this funny plan,
Because it’s the home of the pop-corn man.
The pop-corn man,
The pop-corn man,
Of all the rest,
I love him best,
The funny little pop-corn man.
The fussy little pop-corn man.
Oh, how does he sleep, if he sleeps at all?
For he must roll up like a rubber ball;
Or just like a squir’l, and stores himself
All hudly cudly on the shelf,
If he wanted to stretch he would not have space
In his bare little spare little tucked up place,
He seems like a rat in an old tin can,
This brisk little, frisk little pop-corn man.
I know he is wise by the way he looks,
For he’s just like the man I’ve seen in books,
With his hair worn off, and his squinty eyes,
And his whiskers, too,–I know he’s wise,
And then just think of the way he makes
The corn all jump into snowy flakes,
With a “pop! pop! pop!” in a covered pan,
This queer little, dear little pop-corn man.