Lyr Req: Music Hall songs

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Music Hall songs
From: GUEST
Date: 16 Jul 12 - 08:03 PM

who sang Uncle Jonah's got a funny nose?

and who wrote the song?

Subject: Lyr Add: HELLO! HELLO! WHO'S YOUR LADY FRIEND?
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 12 Oct 13 - 04:21 PM

My transcription from the sheet music, which can be seen at The National Library of Australia or York University (Toronto). Spotify has recordings by Stanley Holloway (verse 1 and chorus), Ted Yorke (verses 1, 3, and chorus), and Harry Fragson (verses 1, 2, 3, and chorus).


HELLO! HELLO! WHO'S YOUR LADY FRIEND?
Words by Worton David and Bert Lee. Music by Harry Fragson, 1913.

1. Jeremiah Jones, a lady's man was he.
Ev'ry pretty girl he loved to spoon,
Till he found a wife and down beside the sea,
Went to Margate* for the honeymoon,
But when he strolled along the promenade
With his little wife just newly wed,
He got an awful scare when someone strolling there
Came up to him and winked and said:

CHORUS: Hello! Hello! Who's your lady friend?
Who's the little girlie by your side?
I've seen you
With a girl or two.
Oh! Oh! Oh! I am surprised at you.
Hello! Hello! Stop your little games.
Don't you think your ways you ought to mend?
It isn't the girl I saw you with at Brighton.**
Who, who, who's your lady friend?

2. Jeremiah took his wife's mamma one night
Round to see a moving picture show.
There upon the screen a picture came in sight.
Jeremiah cried, "We'd better go."
For on that picture there was Jeremiah
With a pretty girl upon his knee.
Ma cried, "What does it mean?"
Then pointing to the screen
The people yelled at Jones with glee—

3. Jeremiah now has settled down in life,
Said goodbye to frills and furbelows,
Never thinks of girls except his darling wife,
Always takes her everywhere he goes.
By Jove, why there he is! you naughty boy
With a lady too, you're rather free.
Of course you'll stake your life
The lady is your wife
But tell me on the strict Q. T.—

4. Christmas pantomimes were Jones's chief delight.
Once he madly loved the Fairy Queen.
There behind the scenes, he spooned with her one night.
Someone for a lark pulled up the scenes,
And there was poor old Jones upon the stage
With his arm around the lady fair.
The house began to roar
From gall'ry down to floor
Then ev'rybody shouted there—

* The Australian version of this song substitutes "Manly."
** There are variations of this line in Fragson's recording, but I couldn't completely understand them. I believe they began: "It isn't the girl you kissed at...." and "It isn't the girl you brought to...."

Subject: Lyr Add: THE FUTURE MRS 'AWKINS (Albert Chevalier)
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 06 Mar 14 - 11:35 PM

These lyrics copied from Songs That Never Grow Old (New York : Syndicate Pub. Co., 1913), page 126:


THE FUTURE MRS 'AWKINS
Albert Chevalier, 1892?

1. I knows a little doner.
I'm about to own 'er.
    She's a-goin' to marry me.
At fust she said she wouldn't,
Then she said she couldn't,
    Then she whispered, "Well, I'll see."
Sez I, "Be Missis 'Awkins,
Missis 'Enry 'Awkins,
    Or acrost the seas I'll roam.
So 'elp me bob, I'm crazy.
Lizer, you're a daisy.
    Won't yer share my 'umble 'ome?
    Won't yer?"

CHORUS: Oh, Lizer, sweet Lizer,
If yer die an old maid, you'll 'ave only yerself to blame.
D'y'ear, Lizer? Dear Lizer,
'Ow d'yer fancy 'Awkins for yer other name?

2. I shan't forgit our meetin'.
"G'arn" was 'er greetin'.
    "Just yer mind wot you're about!"
'Er pretty 'ead she throws up,
Then she turns 'er nose up,
    Sayin', "Let me go; I'll shout!"
"I like your style," sez Lizer.
Thought as I'd surprise 'er.
    Cops 'er round the waist like this!
Sez she, "I must be dreamin'.
Chuck it! I'll start screamin'!"
    "If yer do," sez I, "I'll kiss.
    Now then—"

3. She wears a artful bonnet,
Feathers suck upon it,
    Coverin' a fringe all curled.
She's just about the sweetest,
Prettiest and neatest,
    Doner in the wide, wide world!
And she'll be Missis 'Awkins,
Missis 'Enry 'Awkins.
    Got 'er for to name the day.
Settled it last Monday,
So to church on Sunday.
    Off we trots the donkey shay.
    Now then—

LAST CHORUS: Oh, Lizer, sweet Lizer,
If yer died an old maid you'd 'ave only yerself to blame.
D'y'ear, Lizer? Dear Lizer,
Missis 'Enry 'Awkins is a fust-class name!

Subject: Lyr Add: HAS ANYBODY HERE SEEN KELLY (from F Forde
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 07 Mar 14 - 09:49 AM

An Americanized version of this song has been posted in another thread. Who knew that the original Kelly was not Irish? This is the original music-hall version, transcribed by me from the recording by Florrie Forde:


HAS ANYBODY HERE SEEN KELLY?
Words and music by C.W. Murphy and Will Letters
London : Francis, Day and Hunter, ©1909.

1. Kelly and his sweetheart wore a very pleasant smile
As bent upon a holiday, they went from Mona's isle.
They landed safe in London, but alas, it's sad to say,
For Kelly lost his little girl up Piccadilly way.
She searched for him in vain and then of course began to fret,
And this is the appeal she made to ev'ryone she met:

CHORUS: Has anybody here seen Kelly, K-E-double-L-Y?
Has anybody here seen Kelly? Find him if you can.
He's as sad as old Antonio,
Left me on my own-e-o.
Has anybody here seen Kelly, Kelly from the Isle of Man?

2. When it started raining, she exclaimed, "What shall I do?"
For Kelly had her ticket and her spending money too.
She wandered over London like a hound upon the scent.
At last she found herself outside the Houses of Parliament.
She got among the suffragettes who chained her to the grill,
And soon they heard her shouting in a voice both loud and shrill: CHORUS

Subject: Lyr Add: BANG WENT THE CHANCE OF A LIFETIME (Robey
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 09 Mar 14 - 12:29 PM

BANG WENT THE CHANCE OF A LIFETIME
Words and music by Sax Rohmer, 1908.
As recorded by George Robey

Now my old aunt Rebecca is rich.
She's the Dowager Duchess of Diddle.
When she dies, I inherit a million or so,
But the old girl's a fit as a fiddle.
Whilst gunning the moors on the twelfth,
In a quiet lonely spot by the sea,
I saw someone there
By the cliffs, I declare.
'Twas the Dowager Duchess of D.
At that critical moment, some birds came in sight,
So I upped with gun and I blazed left and right,
And I nearly hit auntie, yes, nearly, not quite,
And bang went the chance of a lifetime.

Returning one night from a ball,
In a mellowish mood and reflective,
I saw a strange light in a bank; I said "Ha!
I'll play Sherlock Holmes, the detective."
A half-open window I spied
And inside I proceeded to slip,
When a burglar I saw
Forcing wide the safe door,
So I held him in muscular grip
But he slipped and he bunked; he was wiry and thin,
And the safe was wide open, slap full of tin.
I drew a deep breath, then six p'licemen rushed in,
And bang went the chance of a lifetime.

Once I courted a sweet winsome maid.
She was nineteen and also an heiress.
It's nice when a girl is a Venus Milo,
And also a millionairess.
I wooed her; I wooed her; I won. Wow! Wow!
"My darling," she said, "I am thine."
She swore she'd be true,
So I thought I would too.
What do you think? I thought it was fine.
My sweet Hyacinth, fairest of flowers that blow,
With a millionaire pa in Chicago, what ho!
So I put up the banns, then the wife got to know,
And bang went the chance of a lifetime.

Now the wife and her mother last June
Went to stay with the Marquess De Caxey
They decided to go by the eight-forty-five,
So I saw them safe off in a taxi.
But somewhere about ten o'clock,
Came a telegram; heavens alive!
Poor dear Ma and the wife!
Fearful smash; loss of life!
Total wreck of the eight-forty-five!
'Twas a terrible smash; eighty passengers slain,
And I manfully struggled my tears to restrain,
When the ghastly news reached me: they'd both missed the train,
And bang went the chance of a lifetime.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Music Hall songs
From: GUEST
Date: 24 Nov 15 - 03:37 AM

Old time music hall lyrics ww1
Gallant little Belgium torn by shot an shell,who will tell the story of how the Prussians fell does anyone know the full Lyrics