1. I saw my first live stage show at the Hill Theatre on
Springfield Avenue around 1930. I had earned my money for admission by
selling newspapers (Star-Eagles) just down the street on Market Street.
I don't recall anything about that
show as I was only nine or ten at the time. However, I have a lifelong
memory of one of the stage performers sings "When the Red, Red Robin Comes Bob
Bob Bobbin' Along"...For some reason, many of the words of that song and its
melody remained in my memory, even to this day, some seven decades later.
WHEN THE RED, RED ROBBIN COMES BOB, BOB, BOBBING ALONG
VERSE
I heard a robbin this morning,
I'm feeling happy today. Going to
pack my cares in a whistle and
blow them all away.
What if I've been lucky,
really haven't a thing. There's a
time I always feel happy, as
happy as a king. When the
CHORUS
red, red robbin comes bob, bob, bobbing a-
long, along, they'll by
no more sobbing when he stoarts throbbing his
old sweet song.
Wake up, wake up you sleepy head,
get up, get up, get out of bed.
Cheer up, cheer up the sun is red,
live, love, laugh and be happy.
What if I've been blue, now I'm walking through
fields of flowers.
Rain may glisten, but still I listen for
hours and hours.
I'm just a kid again, doing what I did again,
singing a song, when the
red, red robbin comes bob, bob, bobbing a-
long.
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