Vanderpool Vanderpool

Vanderpool, Vanderpool

Professor of the piano

Got himself a wavy 'do

Vanderpool, Vanderpool



From the ugly Madam's gilded room

The ivories tinkle out a merry tune

While out in the street the Reverend's gloom

Ain't saving nobody



Big Jim, Colossimo

Kissing his fist before rolling the bones

Crying, Come on, seven, don't you know

Baby needs a new pair of shoes



Vanderpool, Vanderpool,

A diamond ring on every finger

Well the papers assumed he never stepped into the room

Without his velvet slippers



One-legged pimps along the avenue

All the preening dandies

Hinky-Dink, Cannon Bathhouse, John Caldwin and Crane Dollar

Hold houses on the levy



Taking a cut, eight cents of every dollar

With a kickback to the Mayor

And the derelict lords and the first world ivorymen



Faces livelier than a bird in a cage

Last night I deigned from Monkey-Face Charlie Gankle's place

You know that Morgan Street Joan?

Well, she stuck a hairpin into a gentleman's stomach



Vanderpool, Vanderpool

Bouncing on his piano stool

Vanderpool, Vanderpool

You're lawless for legionnaires' peccadilloes



Kitty Adams on Satan's mind

State Street, 1896

Claimed to be related to the Raven Poet

Well, at least that's what the Madam says



High jinks on election day

All the slap-shoulder bonhomie

Jerusalem Slim took the very last train

And left all the hustlers and the hoodlums fast asleep



Vanderpool, Vanderpool

Tossing back his wavy 'do

Kicking over his piano stool

Screaming, Jesus has left Chicago



Vanderpool, Vanderpool

Vanderpool, Vanderpool

Vanderpool, Vanderpool



Vanderpool, Vanderpool

Vanderpool, Vanderpool

Vanderpool, Vanderpool