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Thread #49024   Message #4088156
Posted By: GUEST
15-Jan-21 - 02:16 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Don't Do It Again Matilda (H Champion)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Don't Do It Again Matilda (H Champion)
In addition to 'kite' meaning belly, it can also be a London slang word for face as in ‘blow out your kite’ meaning ‘fill your face’:
“From morn til night blow out your kite on boiled beef and carrots”
From ‘Boiled Beef and Carrots’, a Music Hall song written by Charles Collins and Fred Murray (1909) Round index number: RN 30163
Sung by Harry Champion
As children, many London folk were told to blow their noses as they had 'snotty kites' which implies that 'kite' could also mean nose as it'Don't do it again, Matilda' which has these lines:
“Matilda she went to a fancy dress ball
And she played an original part
She rubbed herself over with raspberry jam
And she went as a raspberry tart.
I went up to hug her and give her a kiss
And the jam went all over me kite.
I know she’s a sticker,
Lor’, what a licker!
I shouted “You’ve done it tonight!”
But don’t do it again, Matilda,
Don’t do it again!
That raspberry jam was made out of glue,
Which cannot be helped, but I’m sticking to you,
My luck! Our noses are stuck and I’m starting to lose my train.
I can’t walk about with you stuck on my snout,
So don’t do it again.”