Manic Depressive Pictures
presents...
Hello, Fresno, goodbye.
Pro duced by R .U. Manic.
An d directed by
Depressive.
Now you know the name
of the picture
and you'd like to see it, but no.
Screenplay by Gluck,
from a stage play by Motz,
from a story by Blipp,
from a chapter by Ronk,
from a sentence by Dopes,
from a comma by Stokes,
from an idea by Gropes,
based on a Joe Miller's
jokes.
Now you know the name of the picture
and who wrote it,
and you'd still like to see it. But no.
Odd Direction, Finkelpuff
and Thierry,
is Minerva, but photography,
Alonzo Tech recorded,
sound as Needleback,
upholstery by Zachary,
knickknackery by Thackery,
tipsickery by Dickery,
and dickery by Doc.
Now finally, finally at last,
comes the picture.
And what do we see?
The same old beautiful Corvus
Girls.
The opening scene is a ranch in Fresno,
California.
So what are they singing?
When it's cherry blossom time in Orange,
New Jersey,
we'll make a peach of
a pear.
I know we can't elope,
so honey, do be mine.
And if up from the gulch
rides a hunk of man,
And he is a hero, Cowboy Dan,
a galloping, yodeling buckaroo.
His horse, of course,
is a baritone, too.
I've got the old wagon wheels
inside of me.
Yee -haw -haw.
I've got that old cactus
in the hide of me.
Yee -haw -haw.
Have I ever gotten that
yee -hoo -hoo?
The girls are delighted to hear this.
But where is our heroine?
As the bell rings for lunch,
we find our heroine in the corral,
eating her heart out.
She is Mary Swann, tap -dancing
daughter
of an American juggling act
who left her on the doorstep of an old English
castle
where she was found by Sir Basil
Metabolism who said,
I chose a girl, baby.
I shall raise her as me own daughter,
which he did. But she wants to tap dance,
a cowboy dancer
she met on this trip
and it was love at first sight
Wants to marry her so she can tap dance,
but she knows
Sir Basil will never permit this
Never! Never! Never! Sir Basil!