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What story the Gibberish song tell?


He sings nonsense but tells a story with gesture, what is it?

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it sounded italian, maybe he was telling the same story that was written on his sleeve about a fat man loves a girl or something.

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The trivia section says it's 'Je cherche apres Titine' from 1917. I don't think it was nonsense, but how the Tramp would know it verbatim is a mystery.


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