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Thread #137261   Message #3149281
Posted By: Jim Dixon
06-May-11 - 01:00 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Songs sung by Leslie Sarony
Subject: Lyr Add: AT THE OLD PIG AND WHISTLE (Leslie Sarony
You can hear this at YouTube. I made this transcription:


AT THE OLD PIG AND WHISTLE
Words and music by Ralph Butler & Ronnie Munroe*
As sung by Leslie Sarony, Imperial 2887-B, 1933.

There's a little wayside inn with an old-world atmosphere
Where you eat good English food and drink their best of beer.
This little wayside inn you'll visit in your dreams,
With hams and strings of onions hanging from the old oak beams.

At the old Pig and Whistle with the roses round the door,
At the old Pig and Whistle with the sawdust on the floor,
You can hear old farmer Marley
Grumbling at the price of barley,
At the old Pig and Whistle with the roses round the door.

Down a little cobbled street by the little market square,
Since the days of Good Queen Bess that inn's been standing there.
You can see a rounder place (?), or trophies of the chase,
A big stuffed fish and a fox's head inside a big glass case.

At the old Pig and Whistle with the roses round the door,
At the old Pig and Whistle with the sawdust on the floor,
Sittin' round the tallow candle,
You can hear the latest scandal
At the old Pig and Whistle with the roses round the door.

[Here there is a bit of patter plus a verse of THE OLD SOW (Susannah's a Funniful Man) just as he did in DOWN UPON THE FARM.]

At the old Pig and Whistle with the roses round the door,
At the old Pig and Whistle with the sawdust on the floor,
You can have your photo taken
Sittin' on a side of bacon
At the old Pig and Whistle with the roses round the door.

[* It's spelled "Munroe" on the record label (viewable at YouTube) but "Munro" on the sheet music—according to the catalogue entry at the Cambridge University Library.]

[Can anyone explain "rounder place"—or did I mishear it?]