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Thread #65672   Message #1083466
Posted By: Joe_F
31-Dec-03 - 05:13 PM
Thread Name: Tune Req: Charlie Piecan (Murray & Leigh)
Subject: Tune Req: Charlie Piecan (Murray & Leigh)
Auden's estimable _Oxford Book of Light Verse_ contains a music-hall song called "Charlie Piecan" ("I haven't told him, not up to now") by Frederick Murray & Frederick Leigh:

It doesn't always do to let a mug know everything.
Can't you rumble? I can.
Look at Charlie Piecan.
He's a bloke as happy as the birds upon the wing.
Charlie don't believe in
Worrying and grieving.
He gave me half a quid a day or two ago, to back a horse.
The gee-gee came in last of course.
He doesn't grumble but takes his beating like a don.
He little thinks that I forgot to put the money on.

Does anybody have the tune?