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Thread #74040   Message #1289145
Posted By: GUEST,LFF at Work
05-Oct-04 - 09:39 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Comic Wedding Song
Subject: Lyr Add: GETTIN' WED (C A Clarke, Harry Boardman)
That'll be this one, Giok

GETTIN' WED
(Words C A Clarke; tune Harry Boardman)

It corn't be helped, it corn't be stopped
When aw is done an' said
Whatever comes whatever goes
Young folks keep gettin' wed
Owd folk may kindly caution 'em
An' marriage woes proclaim
But young uns taks no heed of 'em
They just get wed awt' same

Young chaps feel lonely by theirsels
So does young women too
Therefore they go and tee theirsels
In knots they corn't undo.
But stil I wish aw happiness
On' mony a sunny way
To th'gradely lad an' bonny lass
That's reached their weddin' day.

Let each ha' t'other's confidence
An' may they never clem;
May they allus trust each other
E'en if t'grocer weren't trust them
May aw their life be good an' sweet
One endless towfymoon
No fawin' out - especially if
They're up in a balloon

Here's joy to 'em, here's luck to 'em
At booard an' at bed
May they never know that they are born
Still less that they are wed
And so I end this jolly rhyme
In a wish we all may share -
Th' best of health, an enoof o' wealth
To th' newly married pair.

The sleeve notes on the Deep Lancashire LP say:
This wry congratulatory song was written by Allen Clarke, who wrote under various pen-names such as Speedwell, Capanbells, etc., but who was more popularly known as 'Teddy Ashton'.
Clarke was born at Bolton in 1863. The son of cotton operatives, he founded 'Labour Light', the first Labour paper in Lancashire (1891). He also founded at various times @Bolton Trotter', 'Cotton Factory Times' and 'Teddy Ashton's Journal' (1896). Although Allen Clarke was a serious political writer, he made time to write many humorous sketches and poems. 'Gettin' Wed' is not only typical Teddy Ashton, but typical straight-faced Lancashire Humour. The tune adapted by Harry Boardman.

LFF (Who can't remember which bit of the internet he lifted this from)