“Shut up and let him sing it,” said Leon. “It’s great, Monty.”

So Jimmy strummed an introduction, and then, tilting his head back, sang:

“One day when I was walking

Across the old school yard

I chanced upon a fellow

And he was crying hard.

Said I, ‘What is your trouble?’

I thought his heart would break.

His tearful eyes he raised to mine

And then these words he spake: