The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #32615   Message #4236634
Posted By: Jack Horntip
08-Mar-26 - 01:54 PM
Thread Name: Origins: I've Been Working on the Railroad
Subject: RE: Origins: I've Been Working on the Railroad
SONG: Air--"Some one in the house with Dinah,"

I've been looking o'er the house for Dinah ;
I've Been loking for her high and low ;
Whatever has become of Dinah
No one seems at all to know.

It is the pace--it is the pace that kills.
The air's refreshing with the rich perfume
Of cauliflowers--'twill clear my head, perhaps,
That with the old boy's port has somehow got
Obfuscate !


1854. Willikind and Hys Dinah. Preformed at
the Theatre Royal, Haymarket [ London ]. The tune seems
well known enough that it is being used in this production.


See here: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Willikind_and_hys_Dinah_An_original_path/ndlUAAAAcAAJ