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Thread #8256   Message #50823
Posted By: Earl
24-Dec-98 - 02:16 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Champagne Charlie Is My Name
Subject: Lyr Add: CHAMPAGNE CHARLIE (Leybourne, Lee)
I don't know if Leon Redbone did all these verses and I have no idea what the P.R.F.G. game is.

Happy Holidays!

CHAMPAGNE CHARLIE
Written by George Leybourne and Alfred Lee in 1868

I've seen a deal of gaiety throughout my noisy life.
With all my grand accomplishments I ne'er could get a wife.
The thing I most excel in is the P. R. F. G. game,
A noise all night in bed all day and swimming in champagne.

CHORUS: For Champagne Charlie is my name.
Champagne Charlie is my name,
Good for any game at night, my boys,
Good for any game at night, my boys.
Champagne Charlie is my name.
Champagne Charlie is my name,
Good for any game at night, boys.
Who'll come and join me in a spree?

From coffee and from supper rooms from Poplar to Pall Mall,
The girls on seeing me exclaim, "Oh! What a champagne swell!"
The notion it is of everyone, if it were not my name,
And causing so much to be drunk, they'd never make champagne. CHORUS

The way I gained my title's by a hobby which I've got
Of never letting others pay, however long the shot.
Whoever drinks at my expense are treated all the same.
From dukes and lords to cabmen down, I make them drink champagne. CHORUS

Some epicures like burgundy, hock, claret and moselle,
But Moet's vintage only satisfies this champagne swell.
What matter if to bed I go and head is muddled thick?
A bottle in the morning sets me right and very quick. CHORUS

Perhaps you fancy what I say is nothing else but chaff,
And only done, like other songs, to merely raise a laugh.
To prove I'm not in jest, each man a bottle of cham.
I'll stand fizz round, yes, that I will, and stand it like a lamb. CHORUS