Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1892-07-09

AS most UlOuETn AOllEAANns ~ 11AAS ~
no farce or vaudeville is
complete without it, and it has sup |
piled a new allusion TO the daily press. |
And II is one of the silliest songs that |
have caught our frail human fancy |
since the day of that transcendent |
effort of mortal absurdity, 'sShoo Fly"
These are the words of the American
of the song-in which the refrain
is spelled ''Ta-ra-ra Boom-der-e," with
an accent on the e. These are the
verses originally sung, and still sung in
a farce comedy called Tuxedo"
A sweet Tuxedo girl you see,
Queen Of swell society,
Fond Of fun as fond can be
When IL is on the strict 9 7.
I'm not TOO young. I'm not too ola4
Not too timid, not too bold
Just the kind you'd like 10 hold,
Just the kind for sport I'm told
-HoRUs-Ta-ra-ra, Boom-der-e.
Repeat times.
I'm blushiug bud Of innocence,
Papa says Of big expense,
Old maids say have no sense,
BOYS declare I'm just immense,
Before my song do conclude,
/ want ii strictly understood
Tho fond Of fun I'm never rude,
Tho not too bad, I'm not too good
CHoRUs-Ta.ra-ra, Boom-der-e.
Heaven forgive u.s. and heaven for
give Mr.. Henry j. Sayers, the author
of these lines, for comprehending so
well the profundities of popular taste!
This, then. was what was wanting TO
delight the English-spealsing peoples,
to occupy their intellects and 10 satisfy
their craving for musical pabulum!
To tell the truth, If this were albany
doggcreI might do But doggerel,
though it always has its following, is
not sufficiently persuasive by itself to
occupy all the vacant moments of the
race. What is there necessary to a
| catchy tune? What are its elements?
In some proportion and in some degree
| it must have three things-melody,
rhythm and originality. OF these re
| quirements. by the way, the first and
| the last would seem TO be the require
ments of civilization. Rhythm has
| been demanded by man in all ages and
| in all stages of evolution. Libraries
might be written on the meaning OF
| this fact. Why was the drum the earl
| lest medium for the expression of hui
| man emotion and inspiration? There
are 5000 answers to this question: de
ducible from the works of various phil
osophers, living and dead, one of the
simplest Of them being, Because this
soul Is form of motion. This, how
ever, does not prove that Gal
ileo was primarily responsible
for the forging-of-the sword mo
tive in ''Siegfried''l As to mel
ody, there is pretty German legenS
that all music was created by the AL
mighty at the beginning of the world
and that men are finding bits of /
which they call tunes. When all tn
tunes are found, and when the majestic
sublime whole of harmony is known Z
us, then we shall have the millennium
because there will be nothing NOR
for the Germans to do. Perhaps thi
legend may furnish an indication VIII.
some composers are so religiously eS
act in finding the same tune.
'Ta-ra-ra- Boom-de-ay" is an old song
There are two kinds of old songs
There are the old songs which every
body knows and there are the old song
which only few people know. i
former days the second sort of song
was more widely known and sung tina
at present. Learned students, lik
Thomas D'Urfey, Esquire, evencollecte
them into books, words and all, for tn
better distraction of melancholy
or plow-boy poets, like Burns
took their music bodily and y
, new and sentimental words TO then
Something of the practice of Burns hi
been borrowed by Mr.. Sayers-thoug
Z Lord forbid that Mr.. Savers vers'
, should be compared to those of sent
/ mental Seotchman. Thus one reaso