would do
Seemed loony as time to that stingy old crew.
For a fact, there was no one jest like him in
town,
He was most always actin’ the part of a clown;
He would say funny things in his queer,
squealin’ style,
And he talked so’s you’d hear him for more
than a mile.
But ev’ry Thanksgivin’ time Waite he would