Brand-New Fool Blues
from As It Were: The Long-Lost Blue-Noted Romance Yarn by Amos Bankhead
My father got run over by an Amazon truck
Met his maker, rank and file
A doorbell sounded as he lay in the street
and said his last words with a wry smile
Said the father to the child:
What kind of brand-new fool am I?
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