"My Old Man Said To Follow The Van" was on the play list too.


Here is Bethnel Green:
The Ballad of Bethnal Green by Paddy Roberts

I'll sing you a tale of a jealous male and a maid of sweet sixteen
She was blonde and dumb and she lived with her Mum on the fringe of Bethnal Green
She worked all week for a rich old Greek for her Dad was on the dole.
And her one delight was a Friday night when she had a little rock and roll.

To My rit-fal-lal, to my titty-fal-lal, to my titty-bitty fal dal lay.
To My rit-fal-lal, to my titty-fal-lal, to my titty-bitty fal dal lay.

Then one fine day in the month of May she found her big romance
He was dark and sleek with a scar on his cheek and a pair of drainpipe pants
And she thought with you I could be so true through all the years to come
For she loved the gay abandoned way he chewed his chewing-gum (Chorus)

It started well because he fell for all her girlish charms
But he had some doubt when he caught her out in some-one elses arms
He said "Look here, you know my dear, this is going a bit to far"
Then he went quite white and he sloshed her right In the middle of her cha cha cha (Chorus)

He went before a man of the law who said "this will not do.
I've had enough of the sort of stuff as I get from the likes of you"
And was she peeved when he received a longish term in clink.
In a fit of pique she married the Greek and now she's dressed in mink (Chorus)