Please Let Me Sleep On Your Doorstep Tonight

Billy Bennett; Almost a Gentleman - Songs and Recitations; Topic TSCD 780 Three songs of a kind are Don't Send My Boy To Prison, Please Let Me Sleep on Your Doorstep Tonight and She was Poor But She Was Honest, cod melodramatic Victorian songs, sung by Bennett in his best beery voice (and always pitched just a little too high, to achieve the right slightly strangulated delivery), accompanied by similarly beery male chorus and minimal banjo. Great fun. mustrad

HOMELESS WASSAIL (by Ian Robb of Finest Kind)

"Wassail, wassail, all over the town,
Our cup is white and our ale is brown"
But huddled on the iron grate
we poor and hungry curse our fate.

        No wassail bowl for such as these
        No turkey scraps, no ale nor cheese,
        This Christmas Eve our heart's desire
        Is a bottle of gin and a trashcan fire.