Lyr Req: The Used Up Man

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Used Up Man
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 24 May 05 - 05:42 AM

is that one of ours or one of theirs - it sounds English/Cosmotheka-ish?

Subject: Lyr Add: THE USED UP MAN
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 23 May 05 - 10:41 PM

From The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music:

T.G. Booth's Celebrated Comic Songs.
No. 1. THE USED UP MAN
As Sung by Him with the Most Rapturous Applause, and with Unprecedented Success in the Principal Cities of the Union
Arranged for the Piano Forte by the Man about Town.
Boston: Oliver Ditson 115 Washington St., 1845.

1. When darkness is around, and other people snoozes,
I often sits me down and cogitates the muses.
I often thinks it hard that there is such a many
Wot has got more cash than they can spend while me I aren't got any.

CHORUS: Oh I's a used up man, a perfect used up man,
But if ever I gets up again, I'll keep up if I can.

2. I ain't got no dad nor never had no mother.
No sister I ain't had except an only brother,
And he, poor soul, is dead. He died one windy mornin'
'Bout a dozen years ago, the day that he was born in.

3. I s'pose when I dies, from Satan I'll be driven,
And have to loaf about outside the walls of Heaven
With none to take me in, no friendly voice to greet me,
No one to cheer me up, and not a soul to treat me.

4. When I arrived in town, I kinder thought I oughter
Patronize the bar, so I called for soda water,
But the barkeeper he winked. Says he, "Let's use him up."
So he puts his hand over the glass and put some poison in my cup.

5. Now after I had drank it, I kinder felt so queer,
I kept longing for more brandy and felt a burning sensation here,
So I went and drank till I got a pretty good load,
But I've come to the sad conclusion that saltpeter will explode.

6. I'd get along like grease if 'twas not [for] these old clothes,
These old hat, and these old boots, and these jolly red nose.
Oh, I's a victim. Will no one here befriend me?
Take pity on a used up man and just a quarter lend me.

Subject: Wanted: Lyrics to English
From: C Bayer
Date: 30 Aug 98 - 12:30 AM

I am looking for the English lyrics to the c.1850 English saloon theatre song "Used Up Man", probably performed in London by Charles Mathews. Anyone with these lyrics, please email me. Thanks Chris- [e-mail]