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Thread #21520   Message #3219543
Posted By: Jim Dixon
07-Sep-11 - 11:24 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: More Work for the Undertaker (F W Leigh)
Subject: Lyr Add: MORE WORK FOR THE UNDERTAKER (F W Leigh)
Publication information from WorldCat.org:

MORE WORK FOR THE UNDERTAKER
Words and music by Fred. W. Leigh
London: Francis, Day & Hunter, [1895]
"Sung by Chas. Bignell."


From a broadside at The University of Mississippi:

MORE WORK FOR THE UNDERTAKER
Sung by Chas. Bignell

1. Listen to the song I'm going to sing you— You'll laugh till you haven't any breath—
People, as a rule, now seem to think it funny when they hear of a violent death.
Poor little Solomon Snoozer, he behaved like an ass—
He search'd round the house with a candle t'other night, to find a big escape of gas.

CHORUS: more work for the undertaker—
Another little job for the tombstone maker—
At the local cemetery they've
Been very, very busy on a brand new grave—

Snoozer's snuffed it!

2. Billy Buck by nature was a "moucher"— Hard work didn't suit him, it appears—
He had never done one single bit of "graft" for nine-and-thirty years.
Lately he had a bad nightmare. Bill at once got the "knock."
He dreamt he had been out looking for a job— He couldn't stand the terrible shock. CHORUS

Billiams "blewed it"!

3. Sammy Shuter laboured on the railway— His work he was very clever at—
Sam, the other day, was polishing the metals with a lump of mouldy fat.
Up came a runaway engine. Sam stood upon the track—
He held up his hands, for he thoroughly believed he could push the locomotive back. CHORUS

Shuter's "shunted"!

4. Peter Piper visited a circus. He saw what he never could forget—
One of the performers jumped from the ceiling of the house into a net.
Peter, a day or two after, tried a similar drop—
He leapt from a housetop fifty-seven feet, and fell upon a big fat "slop." CHORUS

For Peter and the p'liceman.

5. Little Freddie Figgleton, the fat boy, last week called upon his Uncle Brown.
Just before he left, young Freddie was presented with a bright new half-a-crown.
Then, as he felt a bit thirsty, he went into a shop—
Drank ten lemonades, a dozen ginger-beers, and then there was a big loud pop! CHORUS

For Frederick's fragments!