The big bass viol : (bass song) / words and music by T. Bohannon

VERSE 01: There once lived a man in the town of Missoula,/His name was Augustus Miles,/He was known miles around as a Lalapalousa,/At playing the big bass viol/And ev’ry night when, his work was done,/You’d hear him playing/Zum, zum, zum,/And o’er his face there comes a smile, as he plays this tune on his big bass viol.
CHORUS: Zum, zum, zum, zum, zum, zum sounds forth his big bass viol,/Zum, zum, zum, zum, zum, zum/He plays it all the while,/There’s ne’er a lute nor harp or flute with tones so soft or mild,/As the Zum, zum, zum, zum, zum, zum that he plays on his big bass viol,/That he plays on his big bass viol,/That he plays on his big bass viol, viol,/That he plays on his big bass viol.
VERSE 02: Augustus Miles played himself into trouble,/For a maid with a roguish eye,/Just gave him a smile and his heart like a bubble,/Went bounding to unknown skies/And now he goes to serenade,/Beneath the window of this fair maid,/Says he, “Her heart I must beguile by playing this tune on my big bass viol.