Not even sure where I found this now, but the second verse seems to fit the tune better. Hope it helps. The reference to Lord Lovell would be what was once called a "minced oath", both for the rhyme (= shovell) and possibly for the benefit of the Lord Chamberlain.


Jimmy Bean (What a Mouth)

Old Jimmy Bean was a funny looking fellow
If he had a bigger mouth, you'd've took him for the cellar
But his mouth--
Queered him-
From winning a beauty show

Oh, it was like a steam boat funnel,
Or a railway arch,
Or the Blackwall tunnel,
And you can't-
See Jim-
When he opens his mouth, you know.

And as old Jim 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,
His 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 'is face would fall in half…

What a mouth, what a mouth, Oh Lor, Oh Lumme
He can whisper in his own ear, ain't that funny,
And to quench
His thirst,
He takes a little drink you know,
He got so drunk one foggy night
He lay down in the road
Just as a poor
Old man
Came round delivering coal…

And as he went to shoot the load –
He saw Jim's mouth there in the road –

What a mouth, what a mouth,
What a North and South,
Blimey what a mouth he's got,
That poor old man bein' a short sighted fellah
Well he saw Jim's mouth and he took it for the cellar
And he shot
The lot,
Right into Jim's mouth, no joke,
Jim poor soul's got a belly full of coal
And he coughs up lumps of coke.