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Thread #140894 Message #3845417
Posted By: robomatic
17-Mar-17 - 05:17 PM
Thread Name: Origins: She Was Poor (Same The Whole World Over)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: She Was Poor (Same The Whole World Over)
This song appeared on a "Perry Mason" episode where the plot turned on a Perry Mason 'ringer' hired to get the eponymous hero into trouble by making it look like he showed up where he shouldn't and did a bad thing. The plotters had the problem that the 'ringer' was a cockney sailor with a penchant for drinking and singing. He sang that very song with the gravy variant:
"It's the same the 'ole world over, it's the poor what gits the blime, It's the rich what gits the grivy, 'Cor ain't it a bloomin' shime!"
When faced with Perry Mason himself he referred to him as his "NEM-I-SIS"