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Thread #137261   Message #3149527
Posted By: Jim Dixon
06-May-11 - 08:37 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Songs sung by Leslie Sarony
Subject: Lyr Add: MUCKING ABOUT THE GARDEN (Leslie Sarony)
You can hear this at YouTube. It's the second of 2 songs in one "video." Here is my transcription:


MUCKING ABOUT THE GARDEN
As sung by Leslie Sarony and Tommy Handley, with Jack Payne & the BBC Orchestra, Columbia 5555, 1930.

We're a happy family; I'd like you all to know.
We live with Uncle Joe
In a little bungalow.
It has got a garden and it keeps him on the go.
When someone says, "Where's your uncle?" we just answer, "Oh,
He's mucking about the garden, always on the go."
Seeds begin to show.
Weeds begin to grow.
Mucking about the garden, dear old Uncle Joe
Works for hours
Among the flowers
And then begins to hoe(?).
Everything is lovely-uvely* everywhere, everywhere.
Morning noon and night he's on the go.
Oh!
Mucking about the garden, dear old Uncle Joe
Sings, "Ripe tomatoes, apples or plums,"
Watching his onion grow.

Now a few hints on gardening by yours very soiled, Tommy Handley: first of all, you must purchase suitable tools, such as a spade to cut the earthworms into assorted lengths, a wheelbarrow to carry out their remains, and a watering can in case the capital(?) has grown thirsty during the night. Of course, if you haven't got a garden, the only thing you require is a portmanteau, which you fill with your neighbour's potatoes while she's at the pictures. Then you buy the seed in penny packets, each packet bearing an illustration of the flower, designed by an optimist, and coloured by Ananias. And if your rhubarb is backward, send it forward.

[* Pronounced as 6 syllables: lov-e-ly-uv-e-ly.]