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Thread #62979   Message #1020201
Posted By: GUEST,MCP, Lyric Add
16-Sep-03 - 05:56 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: I've Only Come Down for the Day
Subject: Lyr Add: I'VE ONLY COME DOWN FOR THE DAY
Here it is from Sam Mayo.

Mick

I'VE ONLY COME DOWN FOR THE DAY
(Words and music by Frank Leo; sung by Sam Mayo)

Although I am wearing this Eton boy's hat, I don't go to that famous school.
But still it's an Eton hat too and part of it's moth-eaten too.
I only bought it to go to a school treat; I wanted to swank as they say.
We went to Hastings, and very nice too, but we only went there for the day.
I asked some old chap where the pier was; he stuttered; here's how he began:
"You t-t-t-take the first t-t-t-turning, then g-g-go straight as you can,
Then t-t-t-turn to your l-l-l-left and th-th-th-then the best way
Is to g-g-g-go—"; I said, "That'll do; thank you; I've only come down for the day".

Everyone stared at me Eton Boy's hat as if to say, "He's well-to-do"
And just then some saucy young puff said, "Look at his saucer and cuff".
Talk about beggars, a lot tried to touch me, but I pushed them all on one side.
There was one man with one leg and on crutches came hobbling up to me and cried:
"You've got a kind face, me young fellow, so I hope an old man you'll excuse.
I've lost me left leg by an accident, mate, and a leg ain't a nice thing to lose.
You're lucky, my son, you ain't lost any legs; I've lost one, I'm sorry to say".
I said, "Well I'd help you to find it, old boy, but I've only come down for the day".

There as I sat on a seat all alone a party of lunatics passed.
From some asylum they'd be, and one a-girl looked hard at me.
She broke away unobserved by her keepers and said to me, "Hello, my sweet".
That barmy girl she chucked me under the chin, and then I chucked her under the seat.
Said she, "This is our wedding morning, and soon we shall be man and wife.
We'll love one another for ever and ever and settle in Hastings for life.
We'll just have two children to start with, I think: a boy and a girl; what d'ye say?"
I said, "Well I think, miss, you're asking too much, miss; I've only come down for the day".

Source: Sam Mayo