Palm Beach=cheese sandwich (1942); Waco=Dr. Pepper (1938)

[Mark Mandel]

Larry: Job/slob is the movie version, according to the official website.
Click on "MOVIE LYRICS" at the top of the page and it takes you to
http://www.westsidestory.com/site/level2/lyrics/krupke_movie.html. The "soda
jerker" verse is about halfway down the page:
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*RIFF* (to ARAB)(sings)
> Dear kindly social worker,
> They tell me get a job,
> Like be a soda-jerker,
> Which means like be a slob.
> It's not I'm anti-social,
> I'm only anti-work.
> Gloryosky, that's why I'm a jerk!
>

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(Marc Sacks wrote:
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[buck/schmuck] must be the uncensored (or maybe the movie?) version.
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It's the stage version, as I said before, quoted from the website. The
version I remember, "dough/schmo", is from the cast album, as I suspected
and Larry has confirmed below.

m a m


On 7/6/07, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
>
> At 10:35 PM -0400 7/5/07, Mark Mandel wrote:
> >Dear kindly social worker,
> >They say go earn a buck.*
> >Like be a **soda jerker**,
> >Which means like be a schmuck. *
> >It's not I'm anti-social,
> >I'm only anti-work.
> >Gloryosky! That's why I'm a jerk!
> >
> >"GEE, OFFICER KRUPKE", from West Side Story, Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim,
> >1957
> >
> >Not an antedate, just a high point in memory.
> >
> >* That's the stage lyric from the official West Side Story
> >site<http://www.westsidestory.com/site/level2/lyrics/krupke.html>.
> >The movie lyric has "get a job ... be a slob", and I remember it (from
> the
> >cast album?) as "earn some dough ... be a schmo".
> >
> Good call, Mark.  I just located my original (1957) cast album and
> listened to the song while tracking the lyrics at the above site.
> Sure enough, they sing it with the "dough"/"schmo" couplet you
> recall, pace Sondheim.  But are you sure you're not remembering the
> "job"/"slob" rhyme from an earlier verse in this song?
>
> Officer Krupke, you're really a slob.
> This boy don't need a doctor, just a good honest job.
> Society's played him a terrible trick,
> And sociologic'ly he's sick!
>
>

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