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The Boy Gangs of Richmond in the Dear Old Days

A Page of the City's Lessor History

Recalled by Charles M. Wallace, an Old Boy

[Published Originally in the Richmond Times-Dispatch
in Harry Tucker's Column Entitled "Main Street"]

 

 

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Us Boys



Who remembers when the boys had a beautiful musical instrument--a small, empty bottle? Mr. Boy would go along the street, blowing into the mouth of his instrument and making a musical sound, like that which comes from a conch shell. Alternately, he would put in the following words, or variations thereof, to a melodious phrase:

Hoo-a, Delaware! Hoo-a, Delaware!
Hoo-a, Delaware-oo, hoo!
Hoo-hoo-hoo hoo-a-oo hoo!
Hoo-hoo-hoo hoo-a-oo hoo!
Hoo-a, Delaware-oo, hoo!



 

 


 


 







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