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Thread #107827   Message #2239277
Posted By: Snuffy
18-Jan-08 - 11:11 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Abie My Boy (music hall song)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: music hall /pub song a-be my boy
Back in the late 60s this was part of the "sequence" sung at Cardiff University students union bar and similar places, consisiting of several old songs done in a sort of cod-barbershop/Black & White Minstrels style with lots of "adjustments" to the lyrics.

We were strolling along (We were strolling along)
On Moonlight Bay (on Moonlight Bay)
You could hear the voices singing
They seemed to say (What did they say? what did they say?)
You have stolen my heart (You have stolen my heart)
So don't go 'way (don't go a-way)
As we sang love's old sweet song
On Moonlight Bay (on Moonlight Bay)
The bells are [pause] ringing for me and my gal (scooby-doo, scooby-doo)
The birds are [pause] singing for me and my gal
Ev'rybody's been [pause] knowing, to a wedding we're [pause] going
And for weeks they've been [pause] sewing, ev'ry Susie and Sal (Ev'ry Susie and Sal)
They're congrega-a-ting for me and my gal (scooby-doo, scooby-doo)
The parson's wa-aiting for me and my gal
And someday (SOON) we're gonna build a little home for two or three or four or SIXTY FOUR
In lo-ove land for me and my gal (For me and my gal, 2-3-4)
Abie, Abie, Abie my boy, what are you waiting for now
You promised to marry me some day in June
It's never too late and it's never too soon (Boom, boom, boom)
All the family, they keep on asking me
Which way, What day? I'm in the family way!
Abie, Abie, Abie my boy, what are you waiting for now
I want a beer, just like the beer that pickled dear old Dad
It was a beer, the only beer that Daddy ever had
(Boom, boom, boom) Good old fashioned beer with lots of foam
It took six men to carry Daddy home
Oh, I want a beer, just like the beer that pickled dear old Dad
Roll over Mabel (Let's have it on the other side)
It's better in Blackpool (Let's have it on the other side)
Just like the dogs do (Let's have it on the other side)
A 69-er (Let's have it on the other side)
Good evening friends