Gizmo!1977

Cecil:
In the year of 1914, in the month of February, I was coming home from school. And my hands got very cold, and you see and I had no mittens. And I began, of course, pressing them together to get them warm, and that wouldn't do. And pretty soon I began squeezing them, and I was surprised to think I could make a few different sounds. Well then I begin playing everyday, and pretty soon I could play Yankee Doodle clear through. And that was the only tune I could play for three whole years. And next tune I could play was Marching Through Georgia, then the Trail of the Lonesome Pine. Then for about... everybody wondered then how I could do it would bother me so much for about six years I put it away. Until I met an old showman that come up to Travers once, and he said "Can you do your old novelty anymore, Cecil?". And I said, "I don't know, but I'll try." And I tried, of course, and it come right natural to me after letting it go for six years. And he said, "Well, if I was you...", he says, "I would practice it up and see what I could do some time on the stage when I was in Chicago."