ADD: If it's a Lady, Thumbs Up!

Subject: Lyr Req: If it's a Lady, Thumbs Up!
From: GUEST,Sneff
Date: 18 Aug 08 - 08:08 PM

I assume that this is an old British Music Hall number but I can't find reference to it anywhere.

The chorus goes:

If it's a lady, thumbs up!
If it's a lady, thumbs up!
Don't go kicking up a row
Kicking up a row
Just say, "Wow! Wow!"
If it's a lady, all right!
Everything is sure to be sublime.
If she whispers in your ear,
"Hold me tight, Georgie dear!"
Thumbs up – every time!


I'm chasing the lyrics for the start of the verse set in a railway train ... can't remember the first few lines but the rest of the verse is:

???
???
… a fact you cannot shirk.
On the railway train you ride
Find a seat inside
But some are standing when the engine gives a jerk
And on your knees there drops a person you don't even know
Well iff that person is a man you feel annoyed, but oh!

&c

Does this ring a bell with anyone??

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: If it's a Lady, Thumbs Up!
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 20 Aug 08 - 10:21 PM

According to The Sheetmusic Warehouse, IF IT'S A LADY, THUMBS UP was performed by Miss Florrie Forde, and was written by Worton David and Bert Lee, and published in 1914.

That's all the information I could find.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: If it's a Lady, Thumbs Up!
From: GUEST,Sneff
Date: 22 Aug 08 - 10:34 PM

Thank you! Yes, it sounds like a Florrie Forde number ... I guess I'll have to dust off the credit card and buy the sheet music!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: If it's a Lady, Thumbs Up!
From: GUEST,999
Date: 13 Sep 12 - 08:41 AM

http://www.horntip.com/html/books_&_MSS/1910s/1917_tommys_tunes_2nd_edition_(HC)/index.htm

There is a parody of the song called "If It's a German, Guns up"

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: If it's a Lady, Thumbs Up!
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 08 Dec 13 - 07:30 PM

Refresh.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: If it's a Lady, Thumbs Up!
From: GUEST,Philip
Date: 07 Apr 17 - 04:01 PM

The song was recorded in 1914 by Fred Douglas on Cinch 5252 - but I can't find a copy! Did you find out the first lines?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: If it's a Lady, Thumbs Up!
From: Mrrzy
Date: 07 Apr 17 - 04:24 PM

The visual is hilarious

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: If it's a Lady, Thumbs Up!
From: GUEST,#
Date: 08 Apr 21 - 01:53 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LFMS7BQ3ys

If It's A Lady, Thumbs Up ! - Fred Douglas

(There may be more info on the 78 label.)

Subject: ADD: If it's a Lady, Thumbs Up!
From: Joe Offer
Date: 08 Apr 21 - 02:30 PM

I found lyrics (printed on a postcard) at eBay: https://www.ebay.fr/itm/264488816676?mkevt=1&mkcid=1&mkrid=709-53476-19255-0&campid=5338722076&toolid=10001

IF IT'S A LADY, THUMBS UP!
(Worton David and Bert Lee)

What to do and what to say
All depends to-day,
On circumstances, the fact you cannot shirk;
In a motor-bus you ride,
Find a seat inside,
But some are standing when the motor gives a jerk.
And on your knee there drops a person you don't even know
Well if that person is a man you feel annoyed, but oh!

CHORUS
If it's a lady, thumhs up!
If it's a lady, thumbs up!
Don't start kicking up a row,
Kicking up as row--just say “Wow! wow!"
If it's a lady, all right,
Ev'rything is sure to he sublime,
If she whispers in your ear,
“Hold me tight, Georgie dear,"
Thumbs up! every time!

When you're down beside the spray,
For a holiday,
Upon the ocean you venture for a sail;
Tho‘ it's calm beside the quay,
When you get to sea,
A storm arises, and your face turns rather pale;
The steamer rolls, and if upon your feet you cannot stand,
You wildly fling your arms around the nearest thing at hand:
CHORUS

Ladies everywhere to-day
Seem to hold the sway.
We've lady clerks now, and lady doctors too; '
You are feeling rather bad,
Touch of “flue” you've had,
So for the doctor you've to send to pull you thro’ ;
But if to come around himself is quite beyond his powers,
And he sends an assistant there who holds your hand for hours!
CHORUS


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LFMS7BQ3ys