Peter: I assume you have a copy of the sheet music and you transcribed from there?

Florrie Forde recorded it like this:


I DO LIKE TO BE BESIDE THE SEASIDE

1. Everyone delights to spend their summer holiday
Down beside the side of the silvery sea.
I'm no exception to the rule. In fact, if I'd my way,
I'd reside by the side of the silvery sea.
But when you're just a common-or-garden Smith or Jones or Brown,
At business up in town,
You've got to settle down.
You save up all the money you can till summer comes around,
Then away you go
To a spot you know
Where the cockle shells are found.

CHORUS: Oh, I do like to be beside the seaside!
I do like to be beside the sea!
I do like to be upon the prom, prom, prom,
Where the brass band plays tiddley-om-pom-pom!
So just let me be beside the seaside,
I'll be beside myself with glee!
And there's lots of girls beside
I should like to be beside,
Beside the seaside, beside the sea!

2. Timothy went to Blackpool for the day last Eastertide,
To see what he could see beside the sea.
As soon as he reached the station there, the first thing he espied,
Was the wine lodge door stood open invitingly.
To quench his thirst, he toddled inside and called out for a wine,
Which grew to eight or nine,
Till his nose began to shine.
Said he, "What people see in the sea, I really fail to see,"
So he caught the train
Gack home again,
And to his wife said he: CHORUS TWICE