The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #48408   Message #729017
Posted By: Dave Bryant
13-Jun-02 - 05:26 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: I Live in Trafalgar Square (C. W. Murphy)
Subject: Lyr Add: I LIVE IN TRAFALGAR SQUARE
Whoops, I've left the last two lines off that verse, here it is complete.

When I think of those unhappy fellas,
The "Morgans" and the "Clarence de Clares".
Wot 'as to put up down the "Cecil",
My deepest sympathy's theirs.
But to show I'm not selfish or greedy
I tell each aristocrat.
That I don't mind exchanging apartments
Well you can't come no fairer than that!
But those soft-headed ninnies don't hear what I say
They go on suff'rin' while I'm here OK.

It is an original verse, because I found it in a book of Music Hall songs. BTW, the 800 room Cecil Hotel in the Strand was the biggest hotel in Europe when it was built in 1886.