The Last Three Seats For Smokers 1901

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 26 Mar 2009
2009

Little Willie Ribbons
gets just six a week as pay
for tending to a soda water bar.
Little Willie Ribbons
took his sweetheart out one day
a riding on a summer trolley car.
They took a seat a way up front
and Willie told the girl
The lovely time she'd have
when they were wed.
He said he'd buy her ev'rything
and she need work no more
the conductor heard them talking
so he said:

The three last seats for smokers
you can smoke on the three last seats,
so if you want to keep that dream pipe lit,
go back on the three last seats and sit,
for the three last seats
are always kept for smokers...

The three last seats for smokers
you can smoke on the three last seats,
so if you want to keep that dream pipe lit,
go back on the three last seats and sit,
for the three last seats
are always kept for smokers...

Two men got up on the car,
one wore a soldier's clothes,
He said he had just returned from the war.
Many wondrous tales he told
of how he fought and bled
'til ev'ryone was list'ning
on that car.
He told how he and Funston
once had whipped a thousand men
And how he'd fill the enemy with lead.
He said t'was he that captured
Aguinaldo and his band
the conductor then came
in the car and said:

The three last seats for smokers
you can smoke on the three last seats,
so if you want to keep that dream pipe lit,
go back on the three last seats and sit,
for the three last seats
are always kept for smokers...

The three last seats for smokers
you can smoke on the three last seats,
so if you want to keep that dream pipe lit,
go back on the three last seats and sit,
for the three last seats
are always kept for smokers...

Pat McGinn and Mike Malone
were riding on the car
says Pat to Mike:
"Ye see that building there.
I bought it for five thousand
and next day sold it for ten
If I keep on I'll be a millionaire."
Says Mike to Pat: "That's nothing
do you see that brownstone row
The one that's got the woodwork painted red.
I bought them for ten thousand
and I sold for ninety eight."
The conductor heard them talking so he said:

The three last seats for smokers
you can smoke on the three last seats,
so if you want to keep that dream pipe lit,
go back on the three last seats and sit,
for the three last seats
are always kept for smokers...

The three last seats for smokers
you can smoke on the three last seats,
so if you want to keep that dream pipe lit,
go back on the three last seats and sit,
for the three last seats
are always kept for smokers...

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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The Last Three Seats For Smokers 1901
Music by Wilford Herbert
Lyrics by Archie Morrow
© MCMI by M.Witmark & Sons
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Thursday 26 March 2009 at 11.45
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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