Lyr Add: Wait Till the Work Comes Round

Subject: Lyr Add: WAIT TILL THE WORK COMES ROUND^^
From: Moira Cameron
Date: 12 Apr 98 - 03:34 AM

WAIT TILL THE WORK COMES ROUND

AUTHOR: Gus Elen
SOURCE: Cosmotheka

Some people knuckle down through being out of work,
But I ain't one of them, not me.
If a gaffer starts to nag, I soon picks up me bag
And I flops him one with this, you see.
It don't do to make people think you're out of work,
'Cause they're bound to turn their heads the other way.
It makes no odds to me what the future's going to be,
So long as I've got all I want today.

CHORUS: So what's the use of kicking up a row
If there ain't no work about?
If you can't get a job, you can rest in bed
Till the school kids all come out.
And if you can't get work, you can't get the sack--
That's an argument that's sensible and sound.
So lay your head back on your pillow and read the Daily Mirror,
And wait till the work comes round.

When trade gets very rocky and you has to take the nocky,
It's best to face the music like a brick;
And if creditors come down on you for everything you own,
You should bash them on the crumpet with a stick!
A lot of people walk the streets, a-looking out for work
Till they haven't got a leg to call their own,
Instead of just a-waiting for the work to come to them,
With their feet stuck on the mantle-piece at home. CHORUS

Subject: RE: LYR. ADD: Wait 'Til the Work Comes Round
From: Ian Harvey-Pittaway
Date: 13 Apr 98 - 11:24 AM

Thanks a million, Moira, for posting the lyrics here and for crediting the author. (I am assuming that you did this in response to my thread?) Since your source is Cosmotheka, must I assume this was a music hall song? By the way, the words I know from Bob Davenport differ in some minor respects. That's the folk process.

Subject: RE: LYR. ADD: Wait 'Til the Work Comes Round
From: Ian Harvey-Pittaway
Date: 13 Apr 98 - 11:26 AM

Whoops! Having a bad day! I have just doubled my last entry. Sorry! I have now seen the original thread, Moira, and your message posted there. I am very grateful. Ta.