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Thread #159007   Message #3765082
Posted By: GUEST,Phil d'Conch
12-Jan-16 - 08:58 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: I'm Going Back to Himazas (Fred Austin)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Down in Pennsyltucky where the pencils
The links on the site are dead ends. Maybe somebody's wayback machine is working better than mine.

"Christopher T. George

A few explanations--

Himazazz is a place in a comic song that my Uncle Bill (Billy Matchett), the vaudeville artist, used to sing. I guess it's a mythical place since the name does not come up on a google search except in relation to the song. The first line of the song goes, "Down in Pennsyltucky where the pencils grow" which might imply the song was written by an American, however, since the ending of the song mentions a pub I think the song must be of British origins not American, though I don't know the composer. Bruce Williams, who is the undertaker referred to in the poem, and who had premises off Lodge Lane, was also a songwriter who wrote songs for George Formby under the name of Eddie Latta and it could have been one of his."

http://www.yoliverpool.com/forum/showthread.php?2636-The-Road-to-Himazazz-%28CTG%29