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Thread #72820   Message #1265929
Posted By: Jim Dixon
07-Sep-04 - 09:53 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Hev Yew Gotta Loight Boy? (A Smethurst)
Subject: Lyr Add: HEV YEW GOTTA LOIGHT BOY? (A Smethurst)
I've listened carefully to the mp3 file linked above, and I have a few corrections to make. The most important is the sequence of verses. There are some minor changes in the wording. Also, I've looked up the place names and I believe I have the spelling correct. I haven't attempted to reproduce the Norfolk pronunciation, except in the title, and I've checked that against some reliable sources, as well as the author's name.

HEV YEW GOTTA LOIGHT, BOY? [HAVE YOU GOT A LIGHT, BOY?]
Allan Smethurst, "The Singing Postman," released 1966.

I had a gal, a really nice gal, down in Wroxham way.
She were wholly nice to me back in the old school days.
She would smile all the while, but Daddy didn't know all.
What she used to say to me behind the garden wall:
"Have you got a light, boy? Have you got a light?"

Then one day she went away. I don't see her no more,
'Til by chance I see her down along the Mundesley shore.
She was there twice as fair. Would she now be true?
So when she sees me passing by, she say, "I'm glad that's you!
Have you got a light, boy? Have you got a light?"

CHORUS: Molly Windley, she smokes like a chimney,
But she's my little nicotine gal.

Now you'll see her and me never more to part.
We would wander hand in hand together in the dark.
Then one night I held her tight in the old back yard.
So when I tried to hold her close, she say, "Now, hold you hard!
Have you got a light, boy? Have you got a light?" CHORUS

By and by, we decide on the wedding day,
So we toddles off to church to hear the preacher say:
"Do you now take this vow to honour all the time?"
Before I has a chance to stop her, she begins to pine:
"Have you got a light, boy? Have you got a light?" CHORUS

Now the doctor tells me a daddy I will be,
So when I ask him, "What's the score?" he say there's only three.
So here I go, cheerio, to see how she do fare.
I know what she will say to me as soon as I get there:
"Have you got a light, boy?"