Go Get the Ax
Channel: Stephen Griffith
Date: 08/10/2020

Day 204 of the American Songbag Stay-at-Home Series

Sandburg writes: "A bob-haired blond girl with a dirty face stood on a downtown street corner in Chicago singing this song; she wore green goggles and held out a tin cup to passers-by; she was being initiated.

"We have heard the piece sung and giggled.... As to gigglers we quote Cherubini, "The only thing worse than one flute is two flutes.”"