[Interloc'ter:] Ladies and gentlemen, be seated Mister Bones, Mister Bones How do you feel, Mister Bones? [Bones:] Rattlin'! [Interloc'ter:] Mister Bones feels rattlin'! Ha, ha, ha, ha, that's a good one Tell a little story, Mister Bones [Chorus:] Tell a little story, Mister Bones [Bones:] How can you keep an angry dog from biting you on Monday? [Interloc'ter:] That joke is old, the answer is to kill the dog on Sunday [Bones:] That's not the way to keep a dog from biting you on Monday [Interloc'ter:] How would you bring the thing about? [Bones:] Have the doggie's teeth pulled out! [Interloc'ter:] Oh, Mister Bones, that's terrible! [Chorus:] Yes, Mister Bones, that's terrible! [Interloc'ter:] And now we'll hear the ballad singer's pet A song we'll ne'er forget By the barnyard quartette [Quartette:] Yes, my darling, you shall be, shall be Always young and fair to me That's a song that never will grow old "Silver threads among the gold" [Tambo:] Mister Interloc'ter [Interloc'ter:] What is wrong with you? [Tambo:] I know of a doctor [Interloc'ter:] Tell about him, do [Tambo:] Sad to say, one day he fell Right into a great big well [Interloc'ter:] That's too bad [Tambo:] It serves him right [Interloc'ter:] Why speak in such a tone? [Tambo:] He should have attended to the sick And let the well alone [Quartette:] That's a joke that was told By the minstrel men we miss When Georgie Primrose used to sing And dance to a song like this:
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