That Toddling TDC

For today’s Daily Create, I pushed play and got
Chicago (That Toddling Town)

It has quite a history for a song I never even heard of. There’s even a James Brown version:

which sounds entirely different. I also located sheet music, which has some of the lyrics Brown used. The version I listened to was instrumental though.

page from sheet music for Cicago (That Toddlin Town)

The chorus references Billy Sunday, who appears to have quite a story of his own, in an oblique jab at Prohibition. A lot of history in one little click.

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