[Dixielandjazz] to Bob Ringwald

[ROBERT R. CALDER]

All very well Mrs. Diller's advice 
to marry a partner same age as yourself 
as long as you find one still fairly nice,
not one of such bulk their weight broke the shelf
they might have been waiting on, a long list, 
gradually however getting harder and colder 
and making arrangements arriving late 
and even bigger, brassier, bolder ---

Given this page's purpose I'd ask whether 
you might manage to make music together 
and if nervous, not desirous of taunting fate,
with lead sheets and chords brought in a folder.

Together 40 years, not a day too much 
the song says, calling the wife the "dear old Dutch"(Cockney slang for mate, rhymes with "Dutch plate") 
suggesting Bandsman Brandsma on a polder? 

Agatha Christie would however insistyou do best to marry an archaeologist -- 
like him with whom she enjoyed the married state, 
who'll appreciate you the more as you get older.  

Robert R. Calder 
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