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Description
A trot or one-step tune, Thanks for the Lobster is a humorous story about courtship and marriage, using lobsters as a metaphor for the unhappy couple.
O.E. “Chick” Story owned a sheet music publishing company on Tremont Street in Boston. Some of his other songs include Take Me to the Chicken Ball, The Girl from Bermuda, and a celebration of new technology: I’d like to Call You on the Phone.
About This Item
- Title: "Thanks for the Lobster" sheet music cover, Boston, 1912
- Creator: Jack Caddington
- Creation Date: 1912
- Subject Date: 1912
- Location: Boston, Suffolk County, MA
- Media: Ink on paper
- Local Code: SM 54
- Collection: Sheet Music
- Object Type: Text and Image
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