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Subject: Re: theres a man that comes to our house

Author:
Ronald Highley (Happy)

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Date Posted: 13:27:04 08/21/06 Mon
In reply to: Robert Bannister 's message, "Re: theres a man that comes to our house" on 09:57:11 05/10/05 Tue

>I always wonderd if this song was real I haven't heard it in over sixty years it was in the early fourties . Now I remember it and the name tommy tucker Thanks for the memories. R.O.H

>You probably have satisfied your curiosity regarding
>the lyrics to "The Man That Came Around" (The Man that
>Comes Around). But in case not, here they are as I
>remember them.
>
>
>My recording was made in the late 1930s. "The Man That
>Came Around" Tommy Tucker Time, Vacalion
>Records/Brunswick Record Corporation of N.Y. Vocal by
>Kerwin Somerville.Record #5189 (25502) & (25503).
>"Honestly" on the flip side.
>
>
> It consisted of chorus and several verses , which I
>remember as follows:
>
>Chorus
>�There�s a man that comes to our house every single
>day,
>Papa comes home and the Man Goes Away
>Papa does the work and Momma gets the pay
>And the man comes around when Papa goes away.�
>
>Three verses describe the coming and goings of the
>iceman , trash man, and milkman:
>
>Verses
>The man that comes to our house
>He�s very nice
>He comes in the summer time to bring Momma ice.
>But the teeny, weeny piece soon melts away,
>And he has to come back again
>Later in the day.
>
>The man that comes to our house
>He comes to take the trash
>In a little white jacket,
>And a little black moustache
>It�s all very strange but it always seemed to me,
>He�s a little more familiar
>Than the trash man ought to be.
>
>The man that comes to our house
>He comes to bring the milk.
>He walks right in the kitchen
>And he talks us to the silk
>I always have to hold his horsey
> Out by the gate
>�Cause he stays so awful long
>The horse don�t wanna wait .
>
>
>It then concluded something like:
>
>When I grow up
>I don�t want to be a doctor or a lawyer
>With an office downtown
>No! I�d rather be
>Just the Man Who Comes around!

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