Tune Req: Charlie Piecan (Murray & Leigh)

Subject: Tune Req: Charlie Piecan (Murray & Leigh)
From: Joe_F
Date: 31 Dec 03 - 05:13 PM

Auden's estimable _Oxford Book of Light Verse_ contains a music-hall song called "Charlie Piecan" ("I haven't told him, not up to now") by Frederick Murray & Frederick Leigh:

It doesn't always do to let a mug know everything.
Can't you rumble? I can.
Look at Charlie Piecan.
He's a bloke as happy as the birds upon the wing.
Charlie don't believe in
Worrying and grieving.
He gave me half a quid a day or two ago, to back a horse.
The gee-gee came in last of course.
He doesn't grumble but takes his beating like a don.
He little thinks that I forgot to put the money on.

Does anybody have the tune?

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Charlie Piecan (Murray & Leigh)
From: Billy Weeks
Date: 01 Jan 04 - 05:10 AM

First place to look when seeking the origin of music hall songs is Michael Kilgarriff's wonderful index 'Sing Us One of the Old Songs', 1998. He gives the publisher as Francis Day and Hunter, 1898. This should make it easier to track down the sheet music (sorrry, I don't have it meself!).

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Charlie Piecan (Murray & Leigh)
From: Joe_F
Date: 01 Jan 04 - 06:24 PM

Thanks for the lead.