Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, March 5, 1892

Great is the might of the Meaningless! Especially in a rattling refrain or a rousing chorus. Big drum effects are always popular. What wonder clever Miss LOTTIE COLLINS'S Ta-ra-ra-boom-de-ay ! is all the rage? Her greatest creation ( vide advertisements), sung and danced with the utmost verve , has taken the town. Will it mar its use to attach a meaning to it? Let us try:—
No. VI.—THAT'S HOW WE BOOM TO-DAY!
A SMART mug-lumberer one must be
To-day, to fetch Sassiety;
Not too strict, of swagger free,
And as fly as fly can be.
Ever pushing, ever bold,
(Else one's left out in the cold )
Thus Success you grasp, and hold.
And may sing, though Pecksniffs scold,—
Chorus.