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07 Jul 10 - 01:38 PM (#2941268) Subject: Time Gentlemen Please From: PHJim The Pig & Whitle show used to end with a song that went something like: Time Gentlemen Please It's time you were no longer here Time Gentlemen Please It's time to drink up your beer. Does anyone know any more of it? |
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07 Jul 10 - 02:17 PM (#2941285) Subject: RE: Time Gentlemen Please From: Leadfingers That would make a change from "Take your glasss to the bar" |
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07 Jul 10 - 02:42 PM (#2941297) Subject: RE: Time Gentlemen Please From: Fred McCormick Are you thinking of a song of that title which Dick Charlesworth and the City Gents recorded in the early 1960s? I can't remember much about it, except for "You've been fondling all my barmaids. Now it's time to say tata mate. Come along, come along, come along please." Unfortunately I've no idea where you'd get the rest of the song. But a check through some of the compilation CDs of 1960s British trad jazz bands might run it to earth. |
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07 Jul 10 - 03:02 PM (#2941305) Subject: RE: Time Gentlemen Please From: Sandy Mc Lean It was the closing theme of The Pig & Whistle TV show. I can't remember much more.............. We've had a few stories some laughter and song But the time has now come when we must say so long We'll be back here next week so please come along Now it's time gentlemen please (Something like that but perhaps not exactly.) |
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07 Jul 10 - 04:07 PM (#2941342) Subject: RE: Time Gentlemen Please From: Joe Offer For the record, this does not appear to be Gene Raskin's Time, Gentlemen, Time (recorded by Liam Clancy & others) - but I figured the thread was a good excuse to call attention to the Raskin song. -Joe- |
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07 Jul 10 - 05:31 PM (#2941393) Subject: RE: Time Gentlemen Please From: Jacob B I was once in a pub where the landlord's call of "Time gentlemen please" was answered by everyone present singing, to the tune of "The Old Gray Mare She Ain't What She Used To Be", Poor old landlord can't get the boozers out Can't get the boozers out Can't get the boozers out Poor old landlord can't get the boozers out Time gentlemen, please Time gentlemen, please Time gentlemen, please Poor old landlord can't get the boozers out Time gentlemen, please This was followed by a second verse, which went, "Poor old boozers can't get the landlord out." Jacob |
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07 Jul 10 - 06:25 PM (#2941416) Subject: RE: Time Gentlemen Please From: Snuffy And other verses may be added ad lib: Poor old landlord wants his nooky now, etc |
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07 Jul 10 - 06:49 PM (#2941421) Subject: RE: Time Gentlemen Please From: Leadfingers we used to follow 'Take Your Glasses' with that ! |
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07 Jul 10 - 07:17 PM (#2941433) Subject: RE: Time Gentlemen Please From: Tug the Cox In London, late sixties, there wa a song which included 'Ain't you got no 'omes to go to, Come along, come along please' Can't remember any more....ring any bells? |
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07 Jul 10 - 07:26 PM (#2941444) Subject: RE: Time Gentlemen Please From: Leadfingers Tug - Goes with Time Gentlemen ! Aint you got no homes to go to X 3 Time Gentlemen please |
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07 Jul 10 - 07:33 PM (#2941455) Subject: RE: Time Gentlemen Please From: Tug the Cox Yeh, I thought it had 'time gentlemen please as well'. Google gives nothing...must be a mudcat way to put it all together! |
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07 Jul 10 - 07:44 PM (#2941459) Subject: RE: Time Gentlemen Please From: Art Thieme The late Joe Moore, founder on the No Exit Cafe (Coffeehouse) in Chicago, and later on proprietor of the Green Dragon Inn (Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin) always ended the night with the call "Time Gentlemen Please" -- followed shortly by the end of the fourth movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony at top volume! It was perfect music to march into the night to. I played at his places off and on for thirty-seven years. Art Thieme |
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07 Jul 10 - 08:39 PM (#2941490) Subject: RE: Time Gentlemen Please From: HiHo_Silver From Memory: It's time Gentlemen please It's time we were no longer here It's time gentlemen please I'ts time to drink up your beer Weve had a few stories some dancing and song well hold hands together as we say so long We'll be back here next week so please come along Now It's time gentlemen please. |
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07 Jul 10 - 08:58 PM (#2941503) Subject: RE: Time Gentlemen Please From: Sandy Mc Lean I think that HiHo-Silver's memory is better than mine on this! The Pig & Whistle was a good show! I was a fan of The Carleton Showband (the show's house band) They are doing a re-union tour but some original performers are no longer able to participate. Carleton Showband |
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08 Jul 10 - 03:46 AM (#2941613) Subject: RE: Time Gentlemen Please From: Rusty Dobro In this part of East Anglia, the landlords call 'Haven't you got second homes to go to?' |
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08 Jul 10 - 08:13 AM (#2941690) Subject: RE: Time Gentlemen Please From: Snuffy Do landlords have second homes in Lesby Avenue? |
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08 Jul 10 - 10:21 AM (#2941750) Subject: RE: Time Gentlemen Please From: Tug the Cox I thought that was policemen? |
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08 Jul 10 - 10:32 AM (#2941753) Subject: RE: Time Gentlemen Please From: Rusty Dobro Where they live on 'Irish stew in the name of the law'? |
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08 Jul 10 - 10:35 AM (#2941758) Subject: RE: Time Gentlemen Please From: GUEST,sinky 17.40 |
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08 Jul 10 - 11:48 AM (#2941794) Subject: RE: Time Gentlemen Please From: Tug the Cox A police saw three friends coming...hello, hello, hello! |
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20 Oct 11 - 07:10 PM (#3242174) Subject: RE: Time Gentlemen Please From: GUEST Time gentlemen please It's time to drink up your beer Time gentlemen please It's time you're no longer here We've had a few stories and dancing and song We'll hold hands together as we sing along We'll be back here next week, so Please come along For it is time Gentlemen please. |
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21 Oct 11 - 06:57 AM (#3242365) Subject: RE: Time Gentlemen Please From: ChrisJBrady From Guest: "It's time Gentlemen please It's time we were no longer here It's time gentlemen please I'ts time to drink up your beer Weve had a few stories some dancing and song well hold hands together as we say so long We'll be back here next week so please come along Now It's time gentlemen please." Ah - but all that's left of our traditional pub culture is the "time Gentlemen please" if at all. Sadly impromptu song, music, [step] dance, and traditional games even dominoes have all long since been banned from 99.9999% of the local pubs in all but Southern Ireland - if the local pubs haven't been closed anyway. Carpeted floors, juke boxes, Sky Sports big-screen t.v., fancy ethnic restaurants, greedy breweries or big impersonal corporations, and draconian licencing laws have all put paid to the traditional culture of our pubs. And that's saying nothing about the straw-coloured watered-down gas-charged over-priced too-cold pi$$-like liquid stuff they have the cheek to foist on unknowing consumers; and usually served in filthy unwashed glasses or leaking plastic beakers. Maybe the words of the rhyme above need rewriting ... ? |
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21 Mar 13 - 05:39 PM (#3493193) Subject: RE: Time Gentlemen Please From: GUEST I have been looking for the lyrics to this song for ages. Thankyou for providing them. My mum, dad & me used to watch The Pig And Whistle every week back in the day. Loved the show. The barmaid Kay Turner, I remember her singing 'My Old Man Said Follow The Van' and I hadn't heard that song again for years till Miss Piggy sang it once on The Muppet Show. I'd love the words to that song, too. |
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21 Mar 13 - 06:13 PM (#3493200) Subject: RE: Time Gentlemen Please From: MGM·Lion My Old Man is a music hall song written in 1919[1] by Fred W. Leigh and Charles Collins, made popular by Marie Lloyd. The song, although humorous, also reflects some of the hardships of working class life in London at the beginning of the 20th century. It joined a music hall tradition of dealing with life in a determinedly upbeat fashion. In the song a couple are obliged to move house, after dark, because they cannot pay their rent. At the time the song was written, most London houses were rented, so moving in a hurry – a moonlight flit – was common when the husband lost his job or there was insufficient money to pay the rent. The chorus of the song is well-known. My old man[2] said "Foller[3] the van, And don't dilly dally[4] on the way". Off went the van wiv me 'ome packed in it, I followed on wiv me old cock linnet.[5] But I dillied and dallied, dallied and I dillied Lost me way and don't know where to roam. Well you can't trust a special like the old time coppers When you can't find your way 'ome.[6] An alternative to the last two lines is: Who'll put you up when you've lost your bedstead, And you can't find your way 'ome?" Another alternative to the last two lines is I stopped on the way to have me old half quarten,[7] now I can't find my way home. Another alternative is "Well you can't trust a man when your life's in a van an' you can't find your way 'ome." Another alternative is I had to stop to have a drop of tiddly in the pub Now I can't find my way home. Another alternative: Stopped off to have one at the old Red Tavern And I can't find my way home. |
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21 Mar 13 - 06:19 PM (#3493203) Subject: RE: Time Gentlemen Please From: MGM·Lion Full lyrics of My Old Man Said Follow the Van at --- http://ingeb.org/songs/myoldman.html |
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21 Mar 13 - 06:54 PM (#3493222) Subject: RE: Time Gentlemen Please From: Noreen Amazingly enough, MtheGM, the lyrics are also here at the Mudcat's very own Digital Tradition database: DON'T DILLY DALLY (MY OLD MAN) |
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22 Mar 13 - 01:26 AM (#3493304) Subject: RE: Time Gentlemen Please From: MGM·Lion Oh. Thank you, Noreen. But why did they use a title that no-one else does? No wonder neither GUEST nor I found it there. Actually, must admit after looking at Google index on searching 'My Old Man Said', find that 'Don't Dilly Dally' is used by some as the title, tho far more entries under 'My Old Man &c...' - see eg Wikipedia, from which the first of my above 2 posts is copied, 21 Mar 0213. The DT gives three songs called 'My Old Man', but none is this one. From the bracketed inclusion of that as alternative title as shown by Noreen above, surely it should at least be x-refd under 'My' in the DT? |
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22 Mar 13 - 10:21 AM (#3493445) Subject: RE: Time Gentlemen Please From: Snuffy At the foot of the DT entry are the following lines: @IrishHands up everyone who knew it was an Irish song |
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22 Mar 13 - 11:44 PM (#3493698) Subject: RE: Time Gentlemen Please From: McGrath of Harlow Another line is "Collect your glasses, shift your arses, time Gentlemen Please" |
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24 Feb 19 - 04:35 PM (#3978806) Subject: RE: Time Gentlemen Please From: GUEST,The Carlton showband |
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24 Feb 19 - 05:07 PM (#3978815) Subject: RE: Time Gentlemen Please From: Long Firm Freddie Carlton Showband - Time Gentlemen Please |
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24 Feb 19 - 05:16 PM (#3978818) Subject: RE: Time Gentlemen Please From: keberoxu The following ends with the words Time, Gentlemen, Please. Lyrics: Tim Rose Price Music: Paul Patterson Performance: The King's Singers Time Piece (about fifteen minutes) |
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25 Feb 19 - 04:56 AM (#3978877) Subject: RE: Time Gentlemen Please From: GUEST,Roderick A Warner Referring to the post up above about 'come along please, etc' if I remember correctly it was an early sixties hit during the trad jazz boom, that odd extension of music hall, by Bob Wallis and his Storyville Jazzmen. Gruff vocal, banjo yug dug dugging merrily along, as the jazz critic Steve Voce amusingly described it, band costumes referencing Mississippi gamblers etc. All good fun, except to the purists of the day, the mouldy figges of blessed memory. |