Novelty Song Lyric "Sylvest"

[keith edwards]

Can anyone help with words 1940's? novelty song which starts "My brother
Sylvest,he's got a row of 40 medals on his chest.........".Thanks.
Keith.

[PBZARET]

Dear Keith:

A very funny song by that old-time jester, Fred Fisher (most famous for CHICAGO
That Toddlin' Town). If you're sensitive to Italian dialect parody, you'd
better skip this one:

MY BRUDDA SYLVEST
by Fred Fisher & Jesse Lasky

Oh you heard about the great stong-a man,
This-a great-a big-a Sullivan,
And you heard about the Jeffries fight,
He's-a strong all right,
He whip-a fifty men in one-a night,
But I got a brudda got the bunch-a beat,
Got a chest-a measure forty-sev'n-a feet,
Got a peanut stand on Mulberry Street,
He's-a tough-a man to beat.
My great big brudda Sylvest
take a great-a big-a ship on the chest,
Kill-a fifty thousand Indians out West.
He no take-a no rest,
He got a one strong grip
with-a one-a punch-a sink-a da ship,
Oh it takes a whole-a army to whip
My brudda Sylvest.

Oh my brudda work on da steam boat,
Down the east-a river one-a day he float,
Underneath the Brooklyn Bridge-a tall,
Somebody call, "Hey look-a da bridge he gone-a fall,"
But-a Sylvest-a say, "Cheer up, nobody die,"
And he push-a push da bridge-a way up high,
And he hold him up like forty horse,
And fifty thousand people walk across.
My great big brudda Sylvest
wears a big-a Mack-a truck for a vest,
wears a hat as big as an eagle's nest,
Needs seven men to get his trousers pressed.
He eats three el'phants every day,
for dessert he eats a whole Chevrolet,
When he sneezed he blew the Empire State away,
My brudda Sylvest.