The Museum Murder
Rocky Fortune · January 19, 1954 · 24 min · 3,790 words
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Frank Sinatra transcribed as Rocky Fortune. Frank Sinatra, starring as that footloose and fancy-free young gentleman, Rocky Fortune. I landed myself a new job last week, again.
Inside talk on a Manhattan sightseeing tour, Grants Toom, Chinatown, the Empire State Building, brother I've been. The place that really gets me though is the Museum of Ancient History. Man, they got dead people laying all over that joint.
Some of them in mummy cases 5,000 years old. I don't object to a few old corpses, but they tried to embalm a fresh one, they rocky fortune. Alright ladies and gentlemen, as you will note, we are progressing up Central Park West and on your right is the largest civic park to be found inside the city the size of New York.
The bus will stop at the famous Museum of Ancient History next where we'll take an hour or so to explore the finest collection of natural nature ever collected, including the Hall of Man, the Egyptian wing, the mummies of the ancient pharaohs, as well as several of the daddies.
several of the daddies. And the wildlife exhibit of wildlife. Any questions? Yeah, I got a question. Shoot. How long you've been conducting this tour? Well, as a matter of fact, lady, this is my first time around.
Yeah, that's what I thought. All my life, I ain't been inside a museum even, so I finally decide when the kogoman is time for a little culture. So what happens? I get a dodo. Well, it's life, kid. You got ticket chances, but I'll do what I can, alive and up the tour.
That kind of a lightning one I can live without. Any more questions? I'd like to ask a question if I may. Anything, uh, yeah, sugar. Is it true that they all have real dead people inside them? They're sarcophagizers at the museum?
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