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WHERE DID YOU GET THAT HAT?
1888
by
Jos. J. Sullivan
(verse)
Now How I came to get this hat 'tis very strange and funny:
Grandfather died and left to me his property and money.
And when the will it was read out they told me straight and flat;
If I would have his money, I must always wear his hat!
(chorus)
Where did you get that hat? Where did you get that tile?
Isn't it a nobby one and just the proper style?
I should like to have one just the same as that!
Wher-e'er I go they shout: "Hello! Where did you get that hat?
(verse)
At twenty one I thought I would to my sweetheart be married;
The people in the neighborhood had said too long we'd tarried.
So off to church we went right quick, determined to get wed;
I had not long been in there, when the parson to me said:
(repeat the chorus again)
Nobby" meant the hat was very stylish. It was probably black and looked like an upside - down bowl with a brim around it.
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