{"id":9220,"date":"2023-03-15T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-15T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=9220"},"modified":"2023-03-15T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T05:00:00","slug":"jimmys-hair-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/jimmys-hair-cut\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy\u2019s Hair Cut"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn85038411\/1915-03-15\/ed-1\/seq-8\/\">Harrisburg Telegraph, March 15, 1915<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Jimmy\u2019s had a hair cut!<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;How the folks all stare!<br\/>It\u2019s so short you see his skin<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Showing through his hair.<br\/>\u2018Twasn\u2019t what he had before,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Cut all round a bowl;<br\/>It was in that barber store<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;By the candy pole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Jimmy\u2019s had a hair cut!<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;We were there to see,<br\/>Looking through the window pane\u2014<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;All the boys with me.<br\/>He was worried there alone,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Trying hard to grin,<br\/>On a kind of great big throne,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Wrapped up to his chin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Jimmy\u2019s had a hair cut!<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Course it scared him some.<br\/>All those shears and cups and things<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Sort of struck him dumb.<br\/>Jimmy\u2019s mother saved a curl\u2014<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;She feels bad, I know,<br\/>That he wasn\u2019t born a girl,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And could let it grow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Jimmy\u2019s had a hair cut\u2014<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;My! It made him proud!<br\/>Walking out, while all of us<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Followed in a crowd.<br\/>He got pretty rich that day,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u2018Fore he went to bed;<br\/>He made every fellow pay<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Just to smell his head.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Harrisburg Telegraph, March 15, 1915. Jimmy\u2019s had a hair cut!&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;How the folks all stare!It\u2019s so short you see his skin&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Showing through his hair.\u2018Twasn\u2019t what he had before,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Cut all round a bowl;It was in that barber store&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;By the candy pole. Jimmy\u2019s had a hair cut!&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;We were there to see,Looking through the window pane\u2014&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;All the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-harrisburg-telegraph","category-newspapers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}