Fragments From 'Oldest! The Musical'

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Sunday, February 11, 2007

Dec. 12, 2006 (AP) -- Elizabeth "Lizzie" Bolden, recognized as the world's oldest person, died Monday in a Memphis nursing home, the home's administrator said. She was 116. Emiliano Mercado del Toro, 115, of Puerto Rico is now expected to assume the title of world's oldest person, said a Guinness researcher.

Emiliano Mercado del Toro:

They call me El Viejo

Because I'm very old

I hail from another time

When the winters still were cold

When I was born, the distant past

Hadn't yet occurred

We had no running water

We had no written word

(A Guinness researcher flies to Puerto Rico to certify del Toro as the world's oldest person.)

Guinness man: