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04 Feb 11 - 01:59 PM (#3088717) Subject: Lyr Add: Nan! Nan! Nan! (from Harry Champion) From: Jim Dixon You can hear this song at YouTube. It's the first of two songs in one "video." Just a few gaps this time in my transcription. I eagerly await your corrections: NAN! NAN! NAN! Words and music possibly by Theodore F. Morse, 1904.* As sung by Harry Champion 1. Once my face was bare; had no hair growing there upon it, So my wife said, "Dan, be a man. Grow some whiskers on it. You can't tickle me," whispered she with a grin. She pulled some hairs out of her broom and stuck 'em round my chin. Day and night she watered them till they began to sprout. Now when I walk out I hear all the children shout: CHORUS TWICE: "Nan-nan-nan, nan-nan-nan, nan-nan-nan-nan-nanny! You've got Grandfather's whiskers. I'll tell poor old Granny!" The girls they love to tickle 'em and use 'em for a fan. When I go out the kids all shout, "Nan-nan-nan-nan-nan!" 2. When next night and ripe in my pipe, I smoked it for tobacco, ... t'other day ... gave some to his ... And I often find, just behind, near my chest, A pair of little sparrows have got in and made a nest. Won't they let their young-uns on my whiskers have a swing! They dropped their eggs all down my legs and the old cock-bird will sing: CHORUS TWICE. 3. People call me Nan. I'm a man, so I think it's silly. Nanny-goats are sheep, if you please. I must be a Billy. Just because I've got this here lot on my chin, The landlord thought he'd take me down but he got taken in. He said, "Good morning, Mister Goat. I want your rent, old chum." I ducked me knock and made a buck and bucked him in the tum-tum-tum-tum. CHORUS TWICE. [* The British Library has sheet music with this title, ascribed to Morse, but I can't be sure it's the same song since the catalogue entry doesn't quote any lyrics and doesn't mention Champion.] |
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11 Dec 14 - 07:30 AM (#3684622) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Nan! Nan! Nan! (from Harry Champion) From: GUEST,gaf0131 The 78 disc credits Weston & Murray as composers |
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11 Dec 14 - 09:12 AM (#3684659) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Nan! Nan! Nan! (from Harry Champion) From: Roger the Skiffler When I was a child, odd strands of hair were called "nan nans". I nevr knew why, this if probably the origin! RtS |