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Thread #164615   Message #4108995
Posted By: cnd
05-Jun-21 - 11:18 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Three Jolly Consumptives
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Three Jolly Consumptives
From the memoir of Nancy Spain, Why I'm Not A Millionaire, learned from Dorothy Dickson:

We are three jolly consumptives
(Terrible imitation of hawking and spitting here follows as chorus)
Hoch-choo, hoch-choo
We are three jolly consumptives
(Hoch-choo, hoch-choo)
We never work and we never will
We run up the hell of a doctor's bill
We are three jolly consumptives
(Hoch-choo hoch-choo)

Apparently Scottish singer Alex Campbell (link) sang a version of the song, but I couldn't find it.