Tune Req/Lyr Add: The Egg

Subject: RE: Tune Req: The Egg
From: GUEST,999
Date: 10 Apr 11 - 09:28 AM

Searching for words to song
        
Is there anyone out there who can remember the words to the nonsensical medly of tunes titled "the egg" Somwhere in the middle is a line which reads " Turning to the gasping waiter I said"Joe" tune Old Black Joe. The line continues " I don't suppose this egg hass been laid for months and months and months,I think perhaps it was laid by some extinct dodo 10,20,30,40,50 years ago. The song ends with the observation " Rule Brittania no matter what you paid,eggs are never never never quite new laid.
Jim Vince 25/06/2007

        words to song        
brings back memories but only remember the ones you have we had alot of fun singing?? it but we did enjoy
Grace Flynn 3/09/2007

        can't sing so remember it a bit        
took large number of common [@ the time] tunes and added new [possibly related even] lyrics. men of harlich, old black joe etc. words were in the 'small' blue song book so it is this you are best to search for. use to love the song but could sing & still can't.
Allan Vincent 7/09/2009

        Thanks        
Thanks to Lyndon McKendry who has supplied the words through a copy of the little blue book.Thanks Lyndon I had almost given up hope.

The above is from    www.oldfriends.co.nz › West Coast › Schools



Might be worthwhile to contact the school itself to see if they still have a copy of that book. However, it would likely differ from the version you heard r.padgett .

Subject: RE: Tune Req: The Egg
From: GUEST,999
Date: 10 Apr 11 - 09:14 AM

"Maxwelton Braes were bonnie
When early falls the dew
It was then that Annie Laurie
Gave me her answer true.

That it was an egg of the Old Brigade
Though it had cracked and altered
There it stood
Not a bit dismayed
Till at last it faltered.

I'm a humming, I'm a humming,
I'm not new laid I know
and turning to the Sergeant Major I said Joe.

I don't suppose this egg's been laid for months and months and months
It's turned up time and time again for months and months and months
I don't know when it was laid, but I should think that it was laid
10. 20, 30, 40, 50 years ago.

So I chucked it through the window, I chucked it through the window
There it lay all next day till the dustman came and cleared the mess away.

Eggshells he saw, eggshells he saw.

Off I went to the grocer's shop to find the fellow who'd supplied it
My father's sword I'd girded on and a white (flag?) right behind it.

Rule Britannia, Britannia rules the waves
Eggs must ever ever ever be new laid!

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Maxwelton Braes are bonnie
Where stand the old hotel
and t'was there I'd an egg for my breakfast
And I knew as I opened the shell.

That it was an egg of the Old Brigade
Though it had changed and altered
There it stood
Quite undismayed
As in accents low it faltered.

I'm humming, I'm humming,
I'm not new laid I know
so turning to the gasping waiter, I said Joe.

I don't suppose this egg's been laid for months and months and months
It's birth certificate's been delayed for months and months and months
I think perhaps it was laid by some extinct dodo
10. 20, 30, 40, 50 years ago.


So I chucked it through the window, I chucked it through the window,
I chucked it through the window..

Then off I went to the grocer's shop to find the fellow who'd supplied it
With my father's sword which I'd girded on
I slew that egg which ran beside me.

And there it lay till next day,
And when the dustman came to clear the mess away.

Eggshells he saw, eggshells he saw.

He wrapped it up in his tarpaulin blanket
And said for his tea it would do
He ate it – and early next morning
His widow his lodge money drew

So, Rule Britannia, Britannia rules the waves
Eggs are never, never, never quite
new laid!

Both the above are from a genaeology site

www.british-genealogy.com/forums/showthread.php/...s.../page 3

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One site mentions getting lyrics from something called 'the little blue book'. I have no idea what that means.

I also saw mention of the song both from Kiwis and Aussies. Seems though that they too had difficulty locating lyrics let alone the tune.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: The Egg
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 10 Apr 11 - 07:55 AM

I seem to remember my grandfather having sheet music for a piece called "The Egg". Sadly lost now, but have wanted to try and find it ever since the 1960s when I last saw it. I remember little else, except that it seemed to be a medley of many musical things I had seen before, and was funny. I had assumed by the age it was of music hall origin.

I would love to find this too.

Subject: Tune Req: The Egg
From: r.padgett
Date: 10 Apr 11 - 06:59 AM

Arthur Howard used to sing this song and I wondered if anyone else has a recording (I haven't Arthur's either) 'tis a music hall song and my difficulty is that the verse tunes change each time and tho' I have a note of what the tunes are it is a bit of a pig to know them all!

Any recording anywhere?

Ray

Eggs are Never Never Never quite newlaid!