Song of the Prune-Frank Crumit/Max Abrams/Ambrose & His Orchestra

[ti:Song of the Prune] [ar:Frank Crumit/Max Abrams/Ambrose & His Orchestra] [al:Mairzy Doats: 24 Great Comic Songs] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Song of the Prune - Frank Crumit/Max Abrams/Ambrose & His Orchestra [00:20.80]La la la la [00:22.11] [00:23.18]La la la la [00:24.46] [00:25.62]Nowadays we often gaze [00:27.70]On women over fifty [00:30.27]Without the slightest trace [00:32.54]Of wrinkles on their face [00:34.57] [00:35.34]Doctor's go and take their dough [00:37.45]To make them young and nifty [00:39.85]But Doctor's I defy [00:42.18]To tell me just why [00:44.67]No matter how young a prune may be [00:47.25]It's always full of wrinkles [00:49.76]We may get them on our face [00:52.26]Prunes get them every place [00:54.61]Prohibition worries us [00:56.90]But prunes don't sit and brood [00:59.22]For no matter how young a prune may be [01:01.82]It's always getting stewed [01:04.16] [01:09.52]In the kingdom of the fruits [01:11.86]The prune is snubbed by others [01:14.23]And they are not allowed [01:16.95]To mingle with the crowd [01:19.54]Though they're never on display [01:21.67]With all their highbrow brothers [01:24.15]They never seem to mind [01:26.62]To this fact they're resigned [01:28.98]That no matter how young a prune may be [01:31.70]It's always full of wrinkles [01:34.41]Beauty treatments always fail [01:36.95]They've tried all to no avail [01:38.63] [01:39.26]Other fruits are envious [01:41.66]Because they know real well [01:43.94]That no matter how young a prune may be [01:46.54]Hot water makes them swell [01:49.28] [01:54.36]Baby prunes look like their dad [01:56.65]But not wrinkled quite as bad [01:59.31] [02:09.16]Every day in every way [02:11.44]The world is getting better [02:13.96]We've even learned to fly [02:16.22]As days go passing by [02:18.75]But how about the poor old prune [02:21.28]His life is only wetter [02:23.75]No wonder he can't win [02:26.09]In the awful stew he's in [02:28.62]No matter how young a prune may be [02:31.46]He's always full of wrinkles [02:33.94]We may get them on our face [02:36.54]Prunes get them every place [02:39.16]Nothing ever worries them [02:41.31]Their life's an open book [02:43.61]But no matter how young a prune may be [02:46.24]It has a worried look [02:48.32] [02:59.24]Prunes act very kind they say [03:01.50]When sickly people moan [03:03.92]But no matter how young a prune may be [03:06.54]It has a heart of stone