March 16 - Henny Youngman (The Musical Birthday Series, 2nd Annual Cycle)

Henny Youngman (16 March 1906 – 24 February 1998) was an English-American comedian who used a violin as an on stage prop. his early career was as a musician.
[For last year's verse on David Del Tredici  click here.]

Take My Fiddle… Please

Henny Youngman, you’ll recall,

Barely played the thing at all.

Telling jokes, then in the middle,

Just a phrase or two on fiddle.

And I’m sure he never had

A fiddle like Jack Benny’s Strad.

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