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Now Think, ye farmers all, I pray.
The little maid would have her will
Of Goody Blake and Harry Gill.
Oh master, we are seven.
Notes
Title: "Tinpan Alley" refers to Woolworth's failure as a song writer (My Little Dixie Pixie"). The title also shows the influence of the Montgolfier brothers, who were making the first balloon ascensions in the same year.
Line (1) "Farmers": showing sylvan motif. "I was an impassioned nutter." said Woolworth, who was also something of a petter.
(3) Both of whom played opposite John Bunny in the old Vitagraph days. Gill also ran bases for the Sacramen to Town Team.
(4) Woolworth's Journal: "The larch is still standing."
(4) A word in the margin here is undecipherable. Eiseman claims it is "yepl" but just below is a notation: "No, 'millennium'. Frederick Barbarossa" Other editors have thought it an epithet for the cuckoo
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