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Hi rinktum inktum.

Lulu Belle and Scotty.

Apparently, a big hit in 1937 (along with “I Feel Just as Happy as a Big Sun Flower”) for sparkling duo Lulu Belle and Scotty. Boys, then girls, trade off on the couplets, and watch me for the changes:

Where are you going, pretty little miss,
My little blue-eyed daisy?
If I don’t find me a young man soon
I guess I’m going crazy.
Hi rinktum inktum diddy deedy dum
Hi rinktum inktum doody.
Hi rinktum inktum diddy deedy dum
Hi rinktum inktum doody, how doody.
How old are you, my pretty little miss,
How old are you, my honey?
If I don’t die of a lonesome heart
I’ll be sixteen next Sunday.
Hi rinktum, etc.
Now can you court, my pretty little miss,
My little wildwood flower?
I kin court more in a minnit an a half
Than you kin in a hour.
Will you marry me, my pretty little miss,
Will you marry me, good-looking?
I’ll marry you but I’ll not do
Yore washin’ an yore cookin’.
Then I won’t have you, my pretty little miss,
I won’t have you, my dear-o.
Well, they aint nobody asked you to,
You yaller-headed skeercrow!
Hi rinktum inktum diddy deedy dum
Hi rinktum inktum doody.
Hi rinktum inktum diddy deedy dum
Hi rinktum inktum doody, how doody.

Uncle Ezra.

I’ll say this for LJ.spinooti: you buy a 19th c. treatise on spiritualism and demonology off her, and she throws in the 1937 Alka-Seltzer Song Book for absolutely no charge. (For extra free copies of this song book, for social gatherings, church affairs, banquets, etc., write to MILES LABORATORIES, INC., Elkhart, Indiana.) —Maybe next time I’ll share some of the popular songs of the Hoosier Hot Shots, or the favorite songs of Lucille Long (“From Aunt Dinah’s quilting party, I was seeing Nellie home,” and also “Nita! Juanita! Lean thou on my heart”), or I’ll cough up Joe Kelly’s ode from beyond the grave, “Gold Star Mother o’ Mine.” —If you’re especially lucky, I’ll even tell you what Uncle Ezra saw.

Gimmie a little toot on the tooter Tommy… (horn)
Another little toot on the tooter Tommy… (horn)
The reason we all feel so swell sir—
We Al-ka-lize with Al-ka-seltzer—
Gimmie a little toot on the tooter Tommy
Station E.Z.R.A.
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