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Thread #115413   Message #2975553
Posted By: GUEST,Oliver Dashwood
29-Aug-10 - 09:25 PM
Thread Name: 1950s novelty songs
Subject: RE: 1950s novelty songs
From "Free as Air" Holiday Island

Well here we are on Tehru,
so called because when the Romans landed they said it was too good to be T---Rue. Ha! Ha!, bon my latin!

Oh gosh it will be fun to be blistered by the sun
there's a sunshine competition simply waiting to be won
breakfast is at six, its compulsory to mix
and remember we are jolly, a jolly bunch of sticks!

We'll be hikin', we'll be bikin', no matter what the weather
and everything we will do, we will do together!
Don't give in to early gents and
answer me this simple question

are we happy?

No! No! No!

On a happy holiday island we would all be very unhappy
every chance of joy would be gone
we would wakey wakey wakey with the dawn!
Just imagine it, just imagine it
Think of all the tourists and the trippers
just imagine it just imagine it
think of all the oranges and kippers!

(from memory of the 1950's LP of Free as air, which I last heard 50 years ago when I was 13.)