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Thread #86071   Message #1598646
Posted By: GUEST
06-Nov-05 - 10:49 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: What a Mouth (R P Weston)
Subject: Lyr Add: WHAT A MOUTH (R P Weston)
This song goes back to 1906, written by R.P.Weston and sung by the great Harry Champion. The song was revived on record around 1950 by 'The Two Bills from Bermonsey', who I often heard singing in pubs around The Elephant and The Old Kent Road area in the fifties. Tommy Steele recorded a poor cover of the 'Two Bills' record and had a minor hit with it around 1957.

Here's the first verse from the original song sheet- havn't got time to put down the other four verses but may do it later if no one else does.

Jimmy Binks would a been an 'ansome fella
If he had another face and a different smeller,
But his mouth, queered him, from winning in a beauty show,
It looks just like a steam boat funnel, or a railway arch, or the Blackwall tunnel,
And you can't, see Jim, when he opens it wide, you know.
And as our Jimmie goes a-walkin' about,
You can 'ear the kids all 'ollerin' out,

Chorus:

What a mouth, What a mouth, What a North and South
Blimey, what a mouth he's got,
When he was a baby Oh Lord Lovell,
Why is poor old mother used to feed 'im with a shovel,
What a gap, poor chap, he's never been known to laugh
For if he did, it's a penny to a quid that his face would fall in 'alf!