Origins: L-U-M-B-E-R-E-D, Lumbered

Subject: Origins: L-U-M-B-E-R-E-D, Lumbered
From: wilbyhillbilly
Date: 09 Apr 04 - 04:49 PM

Anyone out there know who wrote/recorded the original version of this.
I have a version by Lonnie Donegan, and in one verse he mentions "Newley", could this be Antony Newley?
Any info would be appreciated.

Wilby.

Subject: RE: Origins: L-U-M-B-E-R-E-D, Lumbered
From: Warsaw Ed
Date: 09 Apr 04 - 07:09 PM

It's from "Stop the World, I Want to Get Off" performed and written by Anthony Newley. I saw it in New York in the '60s or '70s.   Check the Broadway sites.   Ed

Subject: RE: Origins: L-U-M-B-E-R-E-D, Lumbered
From: Warsaw Ed
Date: 10 Apr 04 - 04:41 PM

The entire libretto of "Stop the World" is available on the "Collection of Musicals Lyrics and Libretti" [zipped download]
[http://libretto.musicals.ru/ ] click on "S" then scroll down
Here's a portion of "Lumbered"

I--have been lumbered!
I've been L-U-M-B-E-R-E-D lumbered,
But, I'm never gonna get lumbered again.

I've been L-U-M-B-E-R-E-D lumbered,
And I don't L-I-K-E it one small bit.
I'm too young to be a father;
There are lots of things I'd rather be--
Like working down a coal P-I-T pit!

When I ought to be completely unencumbered,
I've been forced to buy a ring and say Amen.
I've been L-U-M-B-E-R-E-D lumbered,
But, I'm never gonna get lumbered again.

I've been L-U-M-B-E-R-E-D lumbered;
I'm completely C-H-O-K-E-D choked!
Bang, all my lovely visions--
I've been forced to make decisions.
Wish I had a quid for ev'ry fag I've smoked.

When I think of all the birds with whom I've slumbered;
Now I'll only ever see them now and then.
(At the weekends and whenever the wife's not around!)
I've been L-U-M-B-E-R-E-D lumbered,
But, I'm never gonna get lumbered again.\

If I ever get my hands upon the idiot that wrote,
"Into ev'ry life a little rain must fall,"
I shall take his book of poems
And I'll stuff 'em up his...throat,
'Cause it seems to me as though I get it all!

I've been L-U-M-B-E-R-E-D lumbered;
And the idea doesn't please me very much.
I was not prepared for marriage--
I would catch a boat from Harwich--
But I don't speak any D-U-C-H Dutch.

Though I know it's true a bachelor's days are numbered,
I think I should have the choice of saying when,
I've been L-U-M-B-E-R-E-D lumbered,
But, I'm never gonna get lumbered again.
[continued]

Subject: RE: Origins: L-U-M-B-E-R-E-D, Lumbered
From: wilbyhillbilly
Date: 12 Apr 04 - 05:27 PM

Thanks so much Ed, made my day!!