Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay  

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A sweet Tuxedo girl you see
 A queen of swell society
Fond of fun as fond can be
When it's on the strict Q.T.
 I'm not too young, I'm not too old
 Not too timid, not too bold
 Just the kind you'd like to hold
Just the kind for sport I'm told
Chorus:
Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-re! (sung eight times)
I'm a blushing bud of innocence
Papa says at big expense
Old maids say I have no sense
 Boys declare, I'm just immense
 Before my song I do conclude
I want it strictly understood
Though fond of fun, I'm never rude
 Though not too bad I'm not too good
Chorus
A sweet tuxedo girl you see
A queen of swell society
Fond of fun as fond can be
When it's on the strict Q.T.
 I'm not too young, I'm not too old
 Not too timid, not too bold
 Just the kind you'd like to hold
Just the kind for sport I'm told
Chorus.

--Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay '1891)

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"Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay" is a vaudeville and music hall song. The song's first known public performance was in Henry J. Sayers' 1891 revue Tuxedo, which was performed in Boston, Massachusetts. The song became widely known in the version sung by Lottie Collins in London music halls in 1892. The tune was later used in various contexts, including as the theme song to the television show Howdy Doody.

The song is iconic in the history of popular music.

There is a Bromo-Seltzer 'Ta-Ra-Ra Boom-de-ay!' advertisement for headache medicine[1] in which Lottie Collins sings Ta-Ra-Ra Boom-de-ay! after being healed by the medicine and this effect makes her to dance and sing. Date probably between 1861 and 1890s.

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