first edition Sheet_music
1943 · New York
by Drake, Ervin, words and music
New York: Melody Lane Publications, 1943. Sheet_music. 5p., standard 12x9 inch sheet music format, very good. The yellow and black cover features a sketch of lean man in straw hat pulling a rickshaw bearing a man in European dress, and, inset, a photo of crooner Eddy Howard. A fantasy, postulate of which is that the "coo-lie, name of Chu-lee," has no yen for yen" [sic], "he'll only charge a pretty girl a smile.
(Inventory #: 167515)