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New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 459, 9 April 1948, Page 13

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ye Be Veey ef Be petele whose! lolly com mand Brooks no refusal to bow to their pleasure The hardworking records come meekly to hand Waiting to spin out their ingraven treasure. Fh geal more weakly the baritone roars, ; Wanly triumphant with whistle and whoops, Training his lions and licking their paws, Jadedly putting his seals through their hoops, Endlessly hawking his throat and his wares, Ceaselessly bearing the same weary | Eternal drum major, and Jack of affairs, . Sweeping the chimneys on Life’s Open Road. ¥ Bacal lion has gone and the lambs come instead Lamentingly pouring love's woes in our earLonely men these, whose love-life lies dead, While a thousand-piece orchestra weeps at the Tear. And it doesn’t make up for the loss of their love That the moon they refer to rhymes neatly with June, And that stars by necessity twinkle "above’’ Which all but the lovelorn admit is a boon. HEN Z. Burglestein gets hold of a number That some lesser man has attempted to do, He dettly remodels the tune to a rumba Keeping Chopin alive-and Burglestein too. And "Regular Listener’ of So-and-So street se? up with her knitting and turns on the switch, And thinks that Tchaikovski is perfectly sweet As she heaves the odd sigh and drops the odd stitch, : E would think that a cowboy with hands on the reins Would not have his hands full of heart-troubles too, But it’s sobs in the saddle, and pains on the lains And all for a true love that always ain’t true. The home on the range has no range in the home Or electrical fittings to turn on the lights Only silvery threads in his old mother’s comb And a lamp burning bright in the window at nights. (AeGe frenzied percussion of drums double skinned . A trumpeter screams out of tune and of breath, Till oo flailing of drum sticks and failing of wt The Listeners’ Session is beaten to death,

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