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Thread #135438 Message #3088700
Posted By: Jim Dixon
04-Feb-11 - 01:17 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Wotcher, My Old Brown Son (H Champion)
Subject: Lyr Add: Wotcher, My Old Brown Son (H Champion)
You can hear this recording at YouTube. As usual, I'd like some help making corrections and filling in the gaps to my transcription:
WOTCHER, MY OLD BROWN SON Words and music by Charles Collins and A. E. Sheppard. As sung by Harry Champion.
1. Now I'm a funny sort of chap. I never like to be Mixing up myself in other people's company. Whenever I'm a-walking out, I like to be alone. I'm as happy as can be when I'm upon my own. No matter where I am, if I'm a thousand miles away, Someone's sure to come and slap me on the back and say:
CHORUS: "Wotcher, my old brown son, how are you? Wotcher, my old brown son, how are you? If you've got the money and the time to spare, Come and have a tiddly at the Old Brown Bear. You look fine. Put your hand in mine. Never mind if it weighs a ton. Why, don't you look a swell? You are a-looking well. Wotcher, my old brown son!
2. Now the other afternoon as I was feeling rather blue, I went to Medical Salts 'cause I got nothing else to do. Just to cheer me up, I took the wife along with me, Went into the chambers, the … for to see. I began to tremble when the missus went away, And I looked … I thought I heard him say: CHORUS
3. I shan't forget when I got married—talk about a spike— Me and my old woman, just as happy as you like, We'd got to bed, but hadn't been a tick or two before. There were someone down below a-knocking at the door. I looked out the window. I said, "What's the matter, eh?" The fella said, "There's nothing up. I'd only called to say: CHORUS