THE JERRY SPRINGER INTERVIEW
FINAL PAGE
JS So you did a whole act ...
PB And then I sang "Margie".
JS "Margie".
PB Uh huh, yeah, and I danced. I'd get up and dance and they'd throw nickles and quarters and if they threw pennies I threw it back to 'em!
JS (chuckles)
PB I didn't want no pennys.
JS No, heh, you gotta set your price you know. Now, when you performed in the circus you had hair all over your face.
PB Uh huh,
JS I mean I don't mean just a little ...
PB Well, I shave.
JS You shave now.
PB Uh huh.
JS But at the time for the act you had it all over your face?
PB Yeah, as I grew it grew. I had a beard down to here.
JS Tell me ... you became very successful ...
PB Oh, I loved it!
JS You loved it, that's ... I guess what .. I'm (looking for)
PB If I wasn't so old I'd be right there on that Midway. I talked to everyone of 'em and the one guy he's drunk ... at 4 o'clock that's when the idiots and the drunks come in.
JS And when they were drunk what kind of things would they say?
PB Oh ... "When are you going to take your dress off? ... "Let me see" ... "Whatcha got underneath?" I says, "Well, uh, not what you got, man". But I said ... and his wife would pull him over, you know, and say 'Why don't you shut up?' But he'd be so (gesturing craziness) you know, I'd say "Let him go, he don't know what he's talking about ... he's like an alligator - all mouth and no brains." That's what I'd say. And one of them asked me, he says, "Well how come you're that way?" I said, "Because you're that way". I said "Because I got to see you for nothing, you had to pay to see me." I always had an answer for the marks.
JS And if you could do it again ... ?
PB I'd do it!
It's a long way to go
It's a long way to Tipperary
To the sweetest girl I know.
Goodby Piccadilly,
Farewell Leicester Square
It's a long long way to Tipperary
But my heart lies there."