Origins: They soon made an Angel of him there

Subject: RE: Origins: They soon made an Angel of him there
From: GUEST,Nick Dow
Date: 04 Jun 20 - 02:21 AM

Brilliant! I've been waiting 30 years for that. The link is out of date but the rest will follow now thanks to you. If I go to publication I'll put an acknowledgment in for you. At the moment I'm tied up with another songbook which you'll find as another thread now.
Thanks again
Nick

Subject: RE: Origins: They soon made an Angel of him there
From: Reinhard
Date: 03 Jun 20 - 09:03 PM

Jim mentioned this in the thread Lyr Req: The Old Cracked Basin (T W Connor) as one of many songs written by T.W. Connor.

Subject: RE: Origins: They soon made an Angel of him there
From: GUEST,Nick Dow
Date: 03 Jun 20 - 07:42 PM

I've trawled through about 300 posts by Jim, but no luck. Is he still around?

Subject: RE: Origins: They soon made an Angel of him there
From: GUEST,Starship
Date: 03 Jun 20 - 03:54 PM

Jim Dixon made mention of it about 15 years back. I think you can access info about it in Internet Archives.

Subject: Origins: They soon made an Angel of him there
From: GUEST,Nick Dow
Date: 03 Jun 20 - 03:19 PM

I recorded a couple of verses of this Music Hall song in a Dorset Pub. Does anyone have the rest, and some details?

Very fond of fireworks was Gerry McIntyre
He bought a pound of bangers, and chucked them on the fire
Blew all his Fathers whiskers off and all his mothers hair
In fact the weren't a single sign of Whiskers anywhere

His Father went and got a job to suit him to a T,
Found him a position, working in a factory,
All the work he had to do was making shot and shell
from dynamite and other stuff for blowing folks to hell.
But they soon made an Angel of him there!
They soon made an Angel of him there!
He was looking down a gun,
When they fired it just for fun,
And the soon made an Angel of him there!

Does this jog any memories?