The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1864-05-04
sayin's and Doin's of Josh Billings.
AN EssA ONO MUSIC.
Music has charms tsw socth savsSc.
Tew rend raS. ani bust 4 kabsa-e

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So they tell me. but l shad rather try =
revolver on the savage, a blast or pow
der on the rok. and good sharp vinegar
on tue kabhage. hant sarched histry
+. tew tliskiver who give the fust concert ov
musik We are told that in those days
..the stars sang together" but in thexe
!, days Won kant git stars TO sing together.
/. We often heard sed that such person
/ has good ear for musikr don't fellUk
/ ship with this remark: .awl persia
wants tew understand musiN 18th - .
i good soul; good ear" haint got emmy
smore few du with it than a good sep OF
khranes has tew du with charity. Mu&ikal
acrickets insist that il the gamut amt rite,
the musk aint rite this is awl nonscnxc;
the gamut haint got emmy more tcw du
I with musk hungry man than nife and
fork has with his dinner, il he is real
hungry, he kin ca. with his fingers.
| Musk want got up tew make us wise,
but better naturcd. How much opera
musk du you suppose it wud talk tew
make man? Folks will tell you that
such an overture frio dubulo" Tor sum
uther furrin big-named thing) WAS
moste heavenly rendered." tha. mite as
well tell me that a punkin pie was heav-
enly rendered. What do l care about
pie? Let some Prime Bonner, or Mezzer
Sonpsaner, or Bearytown Baso, or sum
ksch latin individual, cum into this village,
and histe their flag, and hav programmy
or singing az long az chinese prokla-
mashun ritten up side down, and tax
.seventy five cents for preserved seat,
Fand most everybody else duz, and will
Fsay. every now and then, (out loud
f.show bewitching. how delicious! how
Regstatick: and nineteen out of evry
twenty one ov them wouldn't kno it if the
tperformancc waz burlesk on their grand
mother.
Wouldn't it be fun tew Gee one ov these
topera singers undertake tew rok baby
Itew sleep? CESS thare wud be two parts
,carried tew that song about that time.
{Suppoze You shud come home at mite, a
sweary boy, and la you're he'd in mother 8
Hap, and she shud let out opera, good
Lord wud not you think you're mother
Iwus q lunatik, or ought to be one at onst,
ltew save her karakter. ''korrect taist,
lis anuther big wurd; i've heard folks use
lit whose finger males wanted cleaning.
Musk, after all, iz something like vittles,
1.-THE more cooking and seasoning We uze,
1.-THE more we hav to hav, till after a while
we kant enjoy ennything ov the vittles
ibut the pepcrs Opera don't hav einy
u&Saors l0osepin9 affeck Oh me, than castef
set and gaze, and hark, and c6G
Ehole aujence in nhirogliphicks, and 4 ~.
Kan du iz tew git mad that sich stud i
tkailed musk. But awl the reasoning ir
tthe wlirld wont convince mennv people
that tha hant got rite tew go into fits
lover opera tina don't understand a
rate ov seventy: a7a shiaa few expire and
sta ba did ..s;pL ar crim aurviva hr
sperish" If emmy body wants tew go and
ihear a man or woman disgorge musk,
sthat has more kolik than melody into it,
/ suppose (under the Constitushun) tina
,hav Just the same rite as tina hav tew
.crusif themselves emmy uther wa, for
sumbody elss sins that tha don't kno
1.-THE natur of