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Thread #135420 Message #3088260
Posted By: Jim Dixon
03-Feb-11 - 08:28 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Have a Drop of Gin, Joe (from H Champion
Subject: Lyr Add: Have a Drop of Gin, Joe (from H Champion
Here's another of my half-baked attempts to transcribe an old recording of a music-hall song. You can hear it at The Internet Archive. It is song #4 of 10 on that page.
Some of these lines make no sense at all. I hope someone can help me make sense of them.
HAVE A DROP OF GIN, JOE Words and music by Joseph Tabrar and Chas. Collins, 1912. As sung by Harry Champion
1. Have you ever had a picture painted on your mind? Here's a little picture frame, the best you'd ever find: Happy little family, everybody glad, Nearly ev'ry evening Mother says to Dad:
"Have a drop of gin, Joe, gin, Joe, gin, Joe. Have a drop of gin, Joe, do. A little drop of gin, Joey, never hurts me, And I'm sure a drop of gin, Joe, can't hurt you. Have a drop of old gin, old gin, old gin. People say it's better than the new. So give your mind a gin, Joe, gin Joe, gin, Joe. Have a drop of gin, Joe, do.
2. Have you ever seen a parlour very nearly bare? Just to … over there, Mangle in the corner, baby with a toy, Little girl goes up and whispers to the boy:
Have a bit of jam, Jim, jam, Jim, jam, Jim. Have a bit of jam, Jim, do. A little bit of jam, Jimmy, never hurt me, And I'm sure a bit of jam, Jim, can't hurt you. And remember Jim-jam, Jim-jam, Jim-jam. Makes you wish for more, it's true. So have a bit of jam, Jim, jam, Jim, jam, Jim. Have a bit of jam, Jim, do.
3. Have you ever seen a picture in the dead of night? P'liceman on the left side, burglar on the right, P'liceman said to burglar, "Hope you've had a hop." Holding up his jimmy then the burglar said to flop.
Have a little sleep-flop, sleep-flop, sleep-flop. Have a little sleep-flop, do. A tiny little sleep-flop never hurt me, And I'm sure a little sleep-flop can't hurt you. Round the corner sleep-flop, sleep-flop, sleep-flop. Wonderful the old job through. Have a little sleep-flop, sleep-flop, sleep-flop. Have a little sleep-flop, do.
4. Simple Eddie Peter bought an aeroplane. Flying around the … he must have been insane. Called upon his sweetheart, dragged her out of bed, Oops his little answer in a bustle and he said:
Have a little fly, Flo, fly, Flo, fly, Flo, Have a little fly, Flo, do. A tiny little fly, Flo, never hurt me, And I'm sure a little fly, Flo, can't hurt you. If you've never do so, do so, When it's been a luck so, do. Have a little fly, Flo, fly, Flo, fly, Flo. Have a little fly, Flo, do, do, do—