A popular song from 1910
Words by Stanley Murphy
Music by Percy Wenrich
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
1. Everybody he’s a know
It make no matter where you go
The greatest man that ever grow is Macaroni Joe
Sylavest is big and strong
Caroos he sing de fine a song
Dorando he can run so long
But they’re a got no show
Joe got a muss’ like Sylavest
A throat a like Caroos
He got a wiggle waggle just like de Mariutch
He run a light Dorando
He’s a fight a like a Jeff
And Mio Dio! cook spaghetti’
Just like de Fritzi Scheff
Chorus:
Macaroni Joe, Macaroni Joe
Not a thing that he don’t know
Great a big a man, like a Sullivan
Brain a full of knowledge
Got a head just like a college
He’s a got a reputa’sh, o’er the whole crea’sh
Make no matter where you go
Big a democrat, great a diplomat
Macaroni Joe
2. Who’s a teach a Marconi
To make a talk across the sea
To his a brod in Italy?
De Macaroni Joe
When a Teddy Roos’ he scoot
Into the jung to make a shoot
Who pull all the lion’s tooth?
Well, I guess you know
Who teach a Mike a Don
And Hans a Wagg the bas-a-ball?
Who make a Charley Murph
The big a chief in Tam’ny Hall?
And who’s a go to Washington
Instead of Joe, the Can?
Let me tell you something
Macaroni Joe’s de man!