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Lyr Req: Up Went My Little Umbrella (Fred Earle)

22 Aug 19 - 10:49 PM (#4005575)
Subject: Lyr Req: Up went my little umbrella
From: GUEST,Guest Ronnie Bater

Hello Mudcatters,First time poster but longtime reader. Looking for the lyrics of this Music Hall song by Fred Earle. I cannot find it anywhere on the net apart from a youtube version by a couple of ex-pats in Hong Kong and at my age cannot decipher the lyrics. I used to sing it when I was a lad but cannot rememeber all but a few words. Hoping you can help '

23 Aug 19 - 12:41 AM (#4005577)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Up went my little umbrella
From: Joe Offer

I see what you mean about the Hong Kong performance. It's quite funny, but impossible to understand much of it. Here's the Cosmotheka recording, which is a little more understandable:-Joe-

23 Aug 19 - 12:49 AM (#4005578)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Up went my little umbrella
From: Joe Offer

Is this entire message from the song, or just the one four-line verse?
-Joe-

23 Aug 19 - 03:49 AM (#4005589)
Subject: Lyr Add: UP WENT MY LITTLE UMBRELLA (Fred Earle)
From: Songbird

UP WENT MY LITTLE UMBRELLA

I took the missus and her sister on a spree.
We went away to spend a week or two beside the sea.
Out on the beach when the weather was fine,
Sat there looking at the people in the brine.
Right in front was a fine young girl.
The missus said to me: "Now, Pat,
Put your umberella up before your eyes,
'Cause you mustn't look at things like that!"
  So I put my umberella up in front of me
And I hid myself behind it, 'hind it.
Right in front was a fine fat cook,
Bobbing up and down, so I had to have a look.
The wife I found kept turning around
To talk to her sister Bella,
And every time that she turned her head away,
Up went my little umberella.

I joined the army and away I went, you know.
They put me on an aeroplane so off I had to go.
Up in the air was the place for me.
All I had to do was find the enemy.
So off I went at fifty miles an hour.
I soon found the enemy's camp,
But when they started firing, well upon my word,
It's a lucky thing I had my gamp.
  So I put my umberella up in front of me,
And I hid myself behind it, 'hind it.
There was I in the shot and shell,
A dozen little bullets sticking in my derby kell.
The steering gear got a shot down here,
And they shot off my propeller,
And the cannon gave a punch in the place I keep my lunch,
So up went my little umberella.

Once in the country, well, some friends I went to see,
Fell into a pond and wetted all my toggery.
I took them off but I don't know why,
Left them hanging on some trees to let them dry.
I stood there with very little on,
But a funny little straw hard hat,
But when a group of saucy little girls came by,
Well, couldn't stand a thing like that.
  So I put my umberella up in front of me,
And I hid myself behind it, 'hind it.
They all stared as they passed me by,
Standing there with nothing on, they made me feel a guy.
I went quite red when they turned and said:
"I'm shocked at you, young fella,"
But they ran one and all when the rain began to fall,
'Cause up went my little umberella.

23 Aug 19 - 07:06 AM (#4005609)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Up went my little umbrella
From: Long Firm Freddie

Joe, the "four line verse" in the link you gave is in fact four different song titles.

Here's a link to the first one on Monologues (there's a link to the sheet music on that page)

Pudden

LFF

23 Aug 19 - 10:03 PM (#4005694)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Up went my little umbrella
From: GUEST

Thanks so very much for your help. Amazing. Thanks Songbird for the lyrics and Jor Offer for the tune link. It will make someone in my life very happy. Cheers, Ronnie.