Footprints on the Dashboard The Canfield collection contains these two stanzas, without tune. The "whipstock" reference suggests it predates the automobile, but, in any event, the find firmly dates this text to 1926 -- well before Douglas and Arnold might have adapted "Humoresque." I'm sending you a token Of the whipstock that was broken And the footprints on the dashboard upside down. And the spots upon the cushion Where someone's been a-pushin' And my daughter Venus has not not come aroun'. I'm the guy that did the pushin', Left the spots upon the cusion And the footprints on the dash board upside down. Since I met your daughter Venus, I've had trouble with my penis. Wish I'd never seen your God damned town. Another text is in the Rivinius collection, dating from the early 1940's, in Philadelphia.