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Thread #135388   Message #3089228
Posted By: Jim Dixon
05-Feb-11 - 11:50 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Music-hall songs sung by Harry Champion
Subject: Lyr Add: BEAVER (HERE COMES OLD BEAVER)
You can hear this recording at YouTube. It is the first of two songs in that "video."

BEAVER (HERE COMES OLD BEAVER)
Words by George Crump and Neil McKay; music by Will Hyde
As sung by Harry Champion, 1922.

1. Ever since the day that I was twenty-one,
My long whiskers fairly took the bun.
All the girls they make a fuss of me
'Cause my whiskers tickle 'em, you see.
Whenever I walk out,
The girls they laugh and shout:

CHORUS: "Here comes old Beaver, Beaver, Beaver, Beaver."
All the little kids begin to shout:
"Hi, hi, hi! Does your mother know you're out?
He must be robbin' the barber, but he don't look worth a stiver.*
Baa, baa, black sheep, have you any wool? Here comes old Beaver."

2. To a football match I went the other day,
Just to see the Spurs and the Chelsea play.
When I got there, strike me up a tree,
They asked me for to be the referee.
The crowd when me they saw,
They laughed and with a roar: CHORUS

3. Th' other day Lloyd George sent a note to me,
Asked me to go away and have a cup of tea.
Off I went dressed up in my best,
With my whiskers dangling on my chest.
When Megan** stuck at me,
She laughed, "Ha-ha! Hee-hee!"

* Pronounced "steever." ** Lloyd George had a daughter named Megan.