Item 149134 - "Thanks for the Lobster" sheet music cover, Boston, 1912
- Item 149134 - "Thanks for the Lobster" sheet music cover, Boston, 1912
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- Item 149134
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Image Info 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.
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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.