Hector Pennycomequick

Subject: Hector Pennycomequick
From: GUEST
Date: 16 Jun 01 - 03:07 AM

Anyone know the origin of this song (Not in the database. Words I can remember start :

Mister Hector Pennycomequick stood on the castle keep
He opened up his carriage umbrella and took a mighty leap
Hurrah cried Mr Pennycomequick as he sailed through the air
I've always wanted to travel like this
From here to Newport Square .....

Subject: RE: Hector Pennycomequick
From: pavane
Date: 16 Jun 01 - 09:27 AM

Full lyric, as we sang it, was:
Hector Pennycomequick
(Composer unknown?)
Mr Hector Pennycomequick stood on the castle keep
He opened up his carriage umbrella and took a mighty leap

Hurrah cried Mr Pennycomequick as he sailed through the air
I've always wanted to travel like this from here to Newport Square

But Mr Hector Pennycomequick he had a long way to fly
He landed in an ivy bush with both legs in the sky

Mister Hector Pennycomequick, they carried him home to bed
With a lump as big as a seagull's egg on the top of his bald head

So sorry cried Mr Pennycomequick, for causing so much fuss
Next time I go to Newport Square I think I'll take a bus

The moral of this little tale is difficult to refute
A carriage umbrella is a carriage umbrella and not a parachute (HOY)


(Tune is somewhat irregular in rhythm because of the words!

Subject: RE: Hector Pennycomequick
From: pavane
Date: 17 Jun 01 - 05:24 AM

I have found it now. It is from
Figgie Hobbin Poems for Children
by Charles Causley b1917 d????
Lived in Launceston, Cornwall
(Figgie Hobbin is a Cornish pudding)

Subject: RE: Hector Pennycomequick
From: pavane
Date: 19 Jun 01 - 05:02 AM

Charles Causley appears to be still alive and still living in Launceston, at least as of October last year. Figgie Hobbin was apparently published 1970, and we were singing Hector Pennycomequick as a song in 1979 (in Dubai) so at sometime in between, person or persons unknown added a tune. Any ideas?