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Thread #6020   Message #3118579
Posted By: Jim Dixon
21-Mar-11 - 06:30 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Over the Garden Wall (A. P. Carter)
Subject: Lyr Add: OVER THE GARDEN WALL (Gracie Fields)
I suspect the following song is a parody of one of the above, or some such, but I don't know if the tunes are similar.

You can play or download this song at The Internet Archive. It's song #1 on that page. Here's my transcription:


OVER THE GARDEN WALL
Words and music by Leslie Sarony & Cecil Harrington
As sung by Gracie Fields, 1930.

Talk about the moon. Talk about the sun.
Talk about the stars that shine.
Talk about your lovers' lanes east and west.
There's a little place by far the best.

Many a Jack has met his little Jill
Over the garden wall.
Many a maiden's had a little thrill
Over the garden wall.
On a moonlight night when the moon shines bright,
Or if there isn't any moon at all,
They all cling together like the ivy did
Over the garden wall.

Many a tomcat's learned to purr
Over the garden wall.
Many a she-cat's lost a lot of fur
Over the garden wall.
On a moonlight night when the moon shines bright,
Or if there isn't any moon at all,
There's many an answer to the maiden's prayer
Over the garden wall.

Meat was made to eat. Milk was made to drink.
Chewing gum was made to chew.
Dickey-birds were made to fly up above.
There's a little place just made for love.

Wonderful things are hanging on the line
Over the garden wall.
Things that a young man never could design
Over the garden wall.
Lace all white, there's a girl's, all right,
With mother's as expensive as them all.
The father's are those with the patches on,
Over the garden wall.

There is a workhouse very bright and gay,
Over the garden wall,
Where they have cocktails and a cabaret,
Over the garden wall.
On a Christmas night they were all half tight.
The work-house master said, "I greet you all."
Where did they tell him to put his Christmas pud?
MALE CHORUS: Over the garden wall.


[The last chorus is an allusion to one of the parody versions of CHRISTMAS DAY IN THE WORKHOUSE.]