Also from music hall: IT'S ALL RIGHT IN THE SUMMERTIME My old man is a very funny chap He's an artist in the Royal Academy He paints pictures from morning until night Paints them with his left hand, paints them with his right All his subjects, take a tip from me Are very "Eve and Adam"y And I'm the model that has to pose For his pictures every day Chorus: And it's all right in the summertime In the summertime it's lovely While my old man's painting hard I'm posing in the old back yard But oh, oh in the wintertime It's another thing you know With a little red nose, and very little clothes And the stormy winds do blow One day I am Cupid with a dart And another day a fairy beautiful I pose as Venus rising from the sea In the water-butt with the water to my knee Then he hangs me out upon the line You see I have to be so dutiful As I hang there, oh, he paints me as An angel in the sky (Chorus) My old man, oh, he plays a funny game And I've only just begun to tumble him All day long he's running out of paint But the paint is whisky, don't you think it ain't These are all the clothes I've got to wear But I've made up my mind to humble him I'll take a walk up the West one day Just dressed up as I am (Chorus) Written and composed in 1902 by George Everard & Alan Murray Performed by Vesta Victoria (and Judy Cory)
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