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40Th Edition
Sung by the
Great Vance
Crystal Palace & The Strand Music Hall

Jolly Dogs
We're All Jolly Dogs
Such Jolly Dogs Are We
or
Slap Bang
Here we are Again.

London
M O'alcorn 8 Rathbone Place Oxford St. W.

Slap Bang, Here We Are Again or
The School of Jolly Dogs

Written by Harry Copeland

There is a school of jolly dogs,
I've lately come across
They're game for any mortal thing, From this (sparing attitude) to pitch and toss.

Chorus

And they always seem so Jolly oh; so jolly oh: so jolly oh:
They always seem so jolly oh! where ever they may be.
They dance they sing

They laugh ha ha
They laugh ha ha they dance they sing

What jolly dogs are we

Fal la la, fal la la
fal la la
fal la la, fal la la, fal la la.
Fal de the ral, de the ral lal ti da,

Slap bang here we are again
here we are again here we are again.

Slap bang here we are again,
What jolly dogs are we.

2
They meet each night at six o'clock,
And then sit down to dine,
They get the courses out of sight,
And then they take their wine
And they always seem so jolly, oh!
So Jolly Oh! so jolly oh!

3.
At eight o'clock they sally forth,
Because you know its dark;
"Follow my leader" cries the chief,
To night we'll have a lark;
And they always seem so jolly, oh!
So Jolly Oh! so jolly oh!


4
To halls or hops of course they go.
And each man does his weed;
They stick by one another
As they've previously agreed,
And they always seem so jolly, oh!
So Jolly Oh! so jolly oh!


5.

Spring heel Jack and all his pals
With their nocturnal larks,
I'm sure were not a patch upon
This school of modern sparks,
And they always seem so jolly, oh!
So Jolly Oh! so jolly oh!


-This popular Melody may also be had arranged as a March by the great Vance
-Just Published The Ladies version of this popular song: We are all Jolly Girles

ABCs

X: 2
T:Slap Bang, Here We Are Again
M:2/4
L:1/8
C:Harry Copeland
K:E
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G G G G|A A A> A|G B A F|E2 z||G/2 A/2|B B A F|E G G> E|
D F F> D|E G G G/2A/2|B D A> F|E G G G/2A/2|
B B A F|E z E|G3 A |B3 A/2G/2|F A A G/2F/2|
E G G> B,2|G3 A|B3 A/2G/2|
F A G F|E2 z |c c c2|B B B2|
d d/2 d/2 d d/2 d/2|e B c d| e2 B2|G/2 A/2 B/2G/2 E x| G/2 G/2
A/2 F/2 D x|E/2 F/2 G/2 E/2 B, z|
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ABCs-


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end printed version


Notes:
Written by Harry Copeland, it seems, c.1865; and *performed* by "the Great Vance" (but also by Frank Hall and Tom MacLagan). See Kilgarriff, 'Sing Us One of the Old Songs' for references, and the Lester Levy Sheet Music Collection for sheet music.


Slap Bang, Here We Are Again by Alfred Vance
Alfred Vance (real name Alfred Peck Stevens, 1839±88)

from the book allusions in Ulysses-p396
…a music hall song entitled slap bang here we are again by Sheridan….
"Chorus: Slap bang! here we are again
Here we are again here we are a gain
slap bang here we are again
what jolly dogs are we
(cited in Christopehr Pulling in They were singing briefly mentioned)

another annotated notes on Ulysses:

1866 by Sheridan

First verse and chorus-

Long live our British gentlemen
Who like a bit of sport,
Who smoke their weed and swig their stout
And Won't have Gladstone's port

Chorus
For they always go a-rolling home
They always go a -rolling home,
A Jolly lot are they!
Tra, la, la, Tra, la la
Slap bang, here we are again
Slap bang, here we are again,
A jolly lot are we!

yet another citation similar book

is from another rousing song which the rakes of the turn of the century sang in their robust manliness one stanza of the twenty-four in the song will demonstrate the primitive qualities the lyrics espouse:

When you feel blue and worried too
And things are not just right,
Throw out your chest and try your best
To sing with all your might:

Chorus:
Slap Bang Here we are again!
Here we are again, boys, here we are again!
Slap!Bang! Here we are again,
A jolly bunch (gang) are we!

in the book maidenhood p 311
The three jolly dogs was the name of the tune "slap Bang here we are again was the refrain…. By Sara Anna MarshPublished 1867

referred to by priestly as the Great Vance (author)
By J. B. Priestley
Published 2006
Read Country Books
Literature / Classics /
Criticism
320 pages
ISBN 184664979X

]



3 separate broadsides by Forth of
Hull, Glasgow Poet's Box (1865) and Fortey of London.

'The jolly Dogs Polka' which is based on
Vance's 'Slap Bang'. it is dated 1864, music arranged by C.H.Marriott. It
has a coloured litho on the cover and is dedicatd to Vance. Published by
Ashdown & Parry A&P 2397.

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