a bit of a long story 20 years
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you
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it's all right officer I'm just waiting
for a friend
it's a bit of a long story 20 years long
sounds a bit funny of you doesn't it
well I'll explain it just like to make
certain I'm all right about that long
ago there used to be a restaurant where
this store stands Big Joe Brady's
restaurant until five years ago they
tore it down
oh well 20 years ago tonight I dined
here at Big Joe Brady's with Jimmy Wells
my best friend and perhaps the finest
man in the world he and I were raised
here in New York just like two brothers
together
I was 18 and Jimmy was 20 the next
morning I was to start out for the West
to make my fortune you couldn't drag
Jimmy out of New York he thought it was
the only place on earth
well we agree to meet here exactly 20
years from that date and time no matter
what our conditions might be or from
what distance we might have to come we
figured that in 20 years each of us
ought to have a destiny worked out and
unfortunately sounds pretty interesting
right a long time between meets though
seems to me haven't you heard from your
friend since you left well yes for time
we course but after a year it too pretty
lost track of each other
see the wet it's a pretty big
proposition and I kept hustling around
over it pretty lively but I know Jimmy
will meet me here if he's alive
for he always was the truest staunchest
old chap in the world he'll never forget
I came a thousand miles just standing
this door tonight and it's worth it if
my old partner turns up three minutes to
ten
it was exactly ten o'clock when we
parted here at the restaurant door major
fortune out west then you bet I hope
Jimmy is done half as well
so it's kind of a plotter though
Goodfellow as he was
I've had to compete with some of the
sharpest with going to get my pile a man
gets in a groove in New York
it takes the West to put a razor edge on
I'll be on my way
sure hope your friend comes around all
right
all time on top
I should say not I'm getting half an out
with if Jimmy's alive on earth
he'll be here by that time I'm sure of
it so long off
goodnight
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that you Bob
thank you Jimmy well that's my heart
Bob should say yeah we shouldn't I find
you here if you were still in existence
well 20 years a long time the old
restaurants gone Bob I wish you lasted
so we could have had another bit of that
at the West Street View old man
bully it has given me everything I asked
you certainly changed last Jimmy I never
imagined you'd grow so tall in my
absence
well I grew a bit after I was 20 thank
you doing well in New York Jimmy
moderately I have a position in one of
the city Department say yeah mom Bob go
around to a place I know of that's a
good long talk about old times huh
it was a reporter he had this little
white dog and a sailor friend he was
only fooling around that sounds right it
it was quite exciting too
always something new going on Chicago
how's that City job good job what is it
hold it button
yeah that give me well
what are you
not enough to change it
to a pun
sometimes changing the advantage of that
well you can under arrest in the last 10
minutes
no Chicago thought you may have jumped
over all away they why of it and when I
have a little chat with you Hey
Hey
quietly
you know before we go on to the station
with note I was asked to give you read
it here in the light from officer Wells
I was at the appointed place on time
when you litter cigar I saw it was the
face of a man wanted in Chicago somehow
I couldn't do it myself so I went around
and found a plainclothes man to do the
job Jimmy
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you