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![Two Hundred Old-Time Songs [Mark Twain's annotated songbook (New York: J. S. Ogilvie, 1896)]](../images/item_oldtimesongs01.jpg "Two Hundred Old-Time Songs [Mark Twain's annotated songbook (New York: J. S. Ogilvie, 1896)]") ![Two Hundred Old-Time Songs [Mark Twain's annotated songbook (New York: J. S. Ogilvie, 1896)]](../images/item_oldtimesongs02.jpg "Two Hundred Old-Time Songs [Mark Twain's annotated songbook (New York: J. S. Ogilvie, 1896)]") |
Two Hundred Old-Time Songs [Mark Twain's annotated songbook (New York: J. S. Ogilvie, 1896)] On the cover Clemens copied one of his favorite comic verses, written by Billy Rice and sung to the tune of the hymn "There is a happy land":
There is a boarding house, far, far away, Where they give ham & eggs 3 times a day O how them boarders yell When they hear the dinner bell, They give the landlord (!) 3 times a day. The missing word "(!)" was of course "hell." The children "admired it to the limit," and made him "sing it with burdensome frequency." |