The Prune Song-Frank Crumit

[ti:The Prune Song] [ar:Frank Crumit] [al:Vintage Recordings 1926-1938] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Prune Song - Frank Crumit [00:12.50]Tom stacks [00:13.34] [00:15.19]Tom stacks [00:16.13] [00:17.51]Nowadays we often gaze [00:19.75]On the women over fifty [00:22.31] [00:22.88]Without the slightest trace [00:24.41] [00:25.25]Of wrinkles on their face [00:27.12] [00:28.19]Doctors go and take their dough [00:30.65]To make them young and nifty [00:33.63]But doctors I defy [00:35.49] [00:36.36]To tell me just why [00:38.31] [00:39.05]No matter how young a prune may be [00:41.58]It's always full of wrinkles [00:44.42]We may get them on our face [00:46.44] [00:47.05]Prunes get them every place [00:49.14] [00:49.70]Nothing every worries them their life's an open book [00:53.95] [00:54.84]But no matter how young a prune may be [00:57.33]It has a worried look [00:59.31] [01:00.11]For no matter how young a prune may be [01:03.05]He's always full of wrinkles [01:05.04] [01:05.87]Beauty treatments always fail [01:08.13] [01:08.71]They've tried all to no avail [01:11.27]Other fruits are envious [01:13.27] [01:13.84]Because they know real well [01:16.25]That no matter how young a prune may be [01:18.74]Hot water makes them swell [01:21.28] [01:27.25]Nowadays in every way [01:29.83]The world is getting better [01:32.12] [01:32.66]We be even learned to fly [01:35.18]As days go passing by [01:38.08]But how about the poor old prune [01:40.58]His life is only wetter [01:43.26]No wonder he can't win [01:45.79]In the awful stew he's in [01:48.61]No no matter how young a prune may be [01:51.32]He's always full of wrinkles [01:54.16]Now we may get them here and there [01:56.80]But pruneies get them everywhere [01:59.73]Babies fret until they hear a mother's lullaby [02:04.16] [02:04.78]But no matter how young a prune may be [02:07.21]You'll never hear it cry [02:10.19]Oh no matter how young a prune may be [02:12.90]It's always full of wrinkles [02:15.72]We may get them on our face [02:18.22] [02:19.00]Prunes get 'em every place [02:20.68] [02:21.26]Peaches and bananas have that skin [02:24.11]You love to touch [02:25.42] [02:26.22]But no matter how young a prune may be [02:28.78]It don't amount to much [02:31.04] [02:31.74]No matter how young a prune may be [02:34.20]It's always full of wrinkles [02:36.73] [02:37.39]Baby prunes look like their dad [02:39.74] [02:40.29]But not wrinklrd quite as bad [02:42.73]Prunes act very kind they say [02:44.98]When sickly people moan [02:47.69]But no matter how young a prune may be [02:50.46]It has a heart of stone