The New York Clipper (November 1917)

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20 THE NEW YORK CLIPPER November 21; 1917 A 22 KARAT GLOOM CHASER! HOT WANT T0GETWE11 Words by HARRY PEASE and HOWARD JOHNSON Music by HARRY JENTES That wonderful comedy song with real "professional" humor, the kind that "goes over" without explanation and lands a wallop right straight to the funny bone. A genuine boost for your act—and a "joy spreader" as well. What more do you want? Here's evidence De Luxe! FIRST VERSE I juit received an amww to • letter that I wrote From a pal who marched away. Ha wm» wounded in the trenches aomewhera in France And I worried about him night and Jay. Are you ■ailing well was what I wrote. This is whajt he answered in Ids note. CHORUS I don't want to get well, 1 don't want to get well I'm in lore with a beautiful nurse Early every morning, night and noon The cutest little girlio comes and feeds ma with a spoon I don't want to get well, I don't want to get well. Fm glad they shot me on the fighting line, fine The doctor says that I'm in bad condition But, oh, oh, oh, Ft* got so much ambition I don't want to get well, I don't want to get weD For I'm having a wonderful time. SECOND VERSE I showed this letter to a friend who li*«* next door to mi And I heard him quickly say Good-bye pal, I must be going, I'm off to war And 1 hope that I'm wounded right away. If what's in this letter here is true I'll get shot and then I'll write to you. CHORUS I don't want to get well, I don't want to get well. Fm in lore with a beautiful nurse. Though the doctor's treatments show results . . I always get a bad relapse each time she feels my pulse. I don't want to get well, I don't want to get well. I'm glad they shot ma on the fighting line, fin* She holds my hand and begs me not to leave her. Then all at once I get so full of fever. I don't want to get well, I don't want to get weD. For Fm having a wonderful time. (Copyright 1917, by Leo Flirt, Inc.) Besides these there are half a dozen extra choruses each containing a burst of laughter. Laughter! Get it? Now then, who is the next to chase the gloom and spread the joy? CHICAGO Grand Opera House Building BOSTON 181 Tremort Street PtUimOOPMIA Broad and Cherry Streets LEO. FEIST, Inc. 135 West 44th Street, New York sr. touts 7th and Olive streets SAM FRAMOISOO Pantages Theatre Building MIMMEAPOUS Lyric Theatre Building