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Thread #19103   Message #193020
Posted By: Alice
10-Mar-00 - 10:34 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Phil the Fluther's Ball (Percy French)
Subject: Lyr Add: PHIL THE FLUTER'S BALL (Percy French)
I have the first verse and the chorus in a songbook for Phil The Fluter's Ball. I don't have the rest of the words, although I have a recording of the song... so fast a little hard to catch all the words accurately. Can someone provide the rest of the verses, please?

alice flynn

PHIL THE FLUTER'S BALL
Percy French

Have you heard of Phil the Fluter, of the town of Ballymuck?
The times were going hard with him; in fact the man was bruk',
So he just sent out a notice to his neighbors one and all
As how he'd like their company that evenin' at a ball.
And when writin' out he was careful to suggest to them
That if they found a hat of his convenient to the door,
The more they put in, whenever he requested them,
"The better would the music be for batterin' the floor."

chorus
With the toot of the flute, and the twiddle of the fiddle,
O Hopping in the middle, like a herrin' on the griddle
O up, down hands a-rown' crossin to the wall,
Oh! hadn't we the gaiety at Phil the Fluter's Ball.