ANTIQUE ANNIE'S MAGIC LANTERN SHOW

(Jimmy Stewart & Doug Ashdown)

Porcelain plates and penny-farthings
Places you can visit now from long ago
Ruby rings and old brass hearthings
Chippendale, mahoganies that glow
Children's music, box-ed cameos
At ‘Antique Annie's Magic Lantern Show’

Come and see her wares
Climb three flights of stairs
Come and see her face at a place
They call Antique

Bentley-driven Edgecliff ladies
Touch and tease, and toil and spoil her show
Dainty, dusty, Dresden dancers
Answers Annie sweetly, bowing low
Annie answers all that you wish to know
At ‘Antique Annie's Magic Lantern Show’

They bought her coloured glass
They thought that they’d bought her past
Through the silver and the lace at a place
They called Antique

Chippendale, mahoganies that glow
Children's music, boxed cameos
At ‘Antique Annie's Magic Lantern Show’

Come and see her wares
Climb three flights of stairs
Come and see her face at a place
They call Antique …. Antique


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEA-40wWa7M Marian Henderson’s beautiful rendition from her 1970 “Cameo” album, which became ‘collectable’ (I still have my LP!)

Here is the version by co-writer, Doug Ashdown, an Adelaide boy, from his 1970 album “The Age of Mouse” :    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mROiP4s2u1c


R-J