Tune Req/Lyr Add: The Egg

Subject: RE: Tune Req/Lyr Add: The Egg
From: GUEST,guy (Heath Halifax)
Date: 11 Feb 20 - 05:41 AM

Brings back memories.
Used to sing this when with Heath Scouts, Halifax

Happy days

Subject: RE: Tune Req/Lyr Add: The Egg
From: cnd
Date: 11 Feb 20 - 09:25 AM

Also known as The Lavenham Egg Song, Roud #10711

You can hear it sung by Clive Clark here

The Youtube video linked above credits the song to Greatrex Newman (1892 – 1984), saying they wrote the song on 29 May 1982, though given the number of people with older recollections of the song that seems unlikely.

There's also a recording from 1983 available in the John Howson Collection of BL Sounds UK Collection but you need a UK Higher Education Association connection.

Still haven't been able to find any sheet music for it but with the video above it wouldn't be terribly difficult for the right person to construct some

Subject: RE: Tune Req/Lyr Add: The Egg
From: Steve Gardham
Date: 11 Feb 20 - 09:55 AM

Read the thread and your prayers will be answered! 1921.

Subject: RE: Tune Req/Lyr Add: The Egg
From: GUEST,Curtis Walker
Date: 21 Jun 20 - 03:19 PM

I was searching for the correct lyrics to this old song to have for a recording: now I know! Come & have a listen to my dear late Grandpa Fred singing The Egg Song at a wedding anniversary party back in 1980. It was perhaps his classic favorite he used to recite/sing at gatherings and special occasions; now it can live on forever at Soundcloud (well, for as long as that lasts, anyhow!), so Enjoy!: Fred Walker Sings the Egg Song, 1980