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Thread #37122   Message #517519
Posted By: Mark Cohen
30-Jul-01 - 02:52 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: What a Mouth (Harry Champion)
Subject: RE: Help! Need words for impossible song - What a Mouth!
Ah, Jeri, you beat me to it. Serves me right for going to Denver to bring my daughter back for two weeks on the island...

The way I heard the first line of that verse is, "Oh, a mouth so large, cor, Lord, cor, lummy" -- maybe some of our English friends can tell us whether that makes sense to them. And a very minor correction: On John and Tony's version, after "coughs up lumps of coke" there is a cough. The "OY!" or "'EY!" or syllable to that effect comes at the very end of the song. Otherwise, spot on.

Aloha,
Mark