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Thread #2777   Message #3943283
Posted By: GUEST,Phil d'Conch
12-Aug-18 - 03:57 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Goodbye Liza Jane
Subject: Lyr Add: GOLDEN SHOWERS
GOLDEN SHOWERS
Written and composed by Jas. Maas, the well-known comedian – And being in all the Minstrel's Theatres in New-York City.

The music can be obtained at the Music-Store of Wm. A. Pond & Co, 547 & 865 Broadway, New-York.

“The horn of plenty's blowing, blowing , blowing,
Pompey am a-crowing, crowing, crowing, honey:
Silver streams am flowing, flowing, flowing,
        Golden showers falling down:
        Liza Jane has come to town.
                CHORUS.
        I feel so nice, I tell you Soney:
        Lasses nothing I'm like honey,
        Tickle me, I feel so funny,
        I colaps a-part.
Clouds of glory hanging high,
        And little cherubims are singing in the chorus:
Don't come near me, don't come nigh,
        They're bound for to adore us.
                The horn of plenty's, &c.

Miss Liza's got a baby, baby, baby.
Say Pompey keep that shady, shady, shady honey
She's talking like a lady, lady, lady–
        Golden showers falling down,
        Liza Jane has come to town.
                CHORUS.
        I feel so nice, I tell you, Soney
        Lasses nothing, I'm like honey.
        Tickle me, I feel so funny,
        I colaps a-part.
Clouds of glory hanging high,
        And little cherubins are singing in the chorus:
Don't come near, don't come nigh,
        They're bound for to adore us.
                The horn of plenty's, &c.”

[Marsan, Henry DE, New Comic and Sentimental Singer's Journal, No.61, (New York: H. DE Marsan, 1868, p.487)]