Well all reet and rooty-tootBlackjack’s sporting one spiffy suitWith a drape shape and a real reet pleatHe sure is looking really neatBut with that floppy hat upon his headIs he someone we should really dread?Does his name come from a koshOr maybe a sap, by golly gosh?Perhaps this comment is not very astuteBut wasn’t the 40’s the heyday of the suit of zoot?Could the genesis of Blackjack’s name beThe same as ol’ John Jacob P?(Think 10th U.S. cav on Kettle hillOr perhaps WWI will fit the bill)Of the bank robbers in the thirties it must be saidThe majority of them wound up deadSo Mr. Blackjack had better watch his luckElse Detective Tracy will make him a much dead duck.
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Well all reet and rooty-tootBlackjack’s sporting one spiffy suitWith a drape shape and a real reet pleatHe sure is looking really neatBut with that floppy hat upon his headIs he someone we should really dread?Does his name come from a koshOr maybe a sap, by golly gosh?Perhaps this comment is not very astuteBut wasn’t the 40’s the heyday of the suit of zoot?Could the genesis of Blackjack’s name beThe same as ol’ John Jacob P?(Think 10th U.S. cav on Kettle hillOr perhaps WWI will fit the bill)Of the bank robbers in the thirties it must be saidThe majority of them wound up deadSo Mr. Blackjack had better watch his luckElse Detective Tracy will make him a much dead duck.