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09 Jun 02 - 12:09 PM (#726553) Subject: Trafalgar Square From: GUEST,Steve Freedman Does anyone have/know where I can find the words of the verses of the music hall song"I Live in Trafalgar Square" Ta Steve |
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09 Jun 02 - 12:59 PM (#726576) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Trafalgar Square From: GUEST,greg stephens I live in Trafalgar Square/ With four lions to guard me/ Fountains and statues all over the place/ And the Metropole staring me right in theface/ It may be a trifle draughty/ But look at it this way you see/If it's good enough for Nelson/ It's quite good enough for me. That's as far as I can go from memory, sorry the verses have long gone. |
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09 Jun 02 - 02:08 PM (#726609) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Trafalgar Square From: alanabit If this helps to jog anyone's memory, I know it was sung by Flannagan and Allen (my spelling may be wrong there) of the Crazy Gang. They were a British comedy team, popular during the war. Maybe a Google search will turn up something for you. I quite like the song too. |
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09 Jun 02 - 02:46 PM (#726624) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Trafalgar Square From: Herga Kitty I think Dave Bryant might be able to help on this one (and Redd Sullivan used to sing it too. Or was it Martin Winsor...?) Kitty |
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09 Jun 02 - 03:20 PM (#726646) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Trafalgar Square From: John MacKenzie I can remember Redd singing Mary Ellen at the church turned up, with great relish, and actions......Giok |
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09 Jun 02 - 03:20 PM (#726648) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Trafalgar Square From: Nigel Parsons For the lyrics, try Here Nigel |
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09 Jun 02 - 03:37 PM (#726663) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Trafalgar Square From: John MacKenzie I was just about to pst that link too. I'll tell you something else, Trafalgar backwards is raglafart, not many people know that!!.......Giok |
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09 Jun 02 - 06:23 PM (#726751) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Trafalgar Square From: greg stephens Thats very interesting Glok. Even better, if it was actually called Traflager Square, it would be regalfart backwards. I think I will examine my dictionary to see if there are any good words beginning traf with possibilties in this direction. |
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10 Jun 02 - 02:27 AM (#726899) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Trafalgar Square From: Herga Kitty Moor Park...... |
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10 Jun 02 - 03:16 AM (#726905) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Trafalgar Square From: Steve Parkes It was Redd Sullivan that sang it; he got it (remember?) from "an old chap with no 'ampsteads in the north"! (Steve Parkes sings it too-- he got it from RS.) Ah, there's many a swell up in Stony tonight ... Steve |
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10 Jun 02 - 05:23 AM (#726925) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Trafalgar Square From: Dave Bryant The last verse is missing from the version given in the link - it goes (I've probably changed it over the years): When I think of those unhappy fellas The "Morgans" and the "Clarence de Clares". Wot 'as to put up down the "Cecil", My deepest sympathy's theirs. But to show I'm not selfish or greedy I tell each aristocrat. That I don't mind exchanging apartments Well you can't come no fairer than that! I also first heard it sung by Red Sullivan. When I sing the last line of the chorus I point up at an imaginary Nelson on the first verse, look up and pretend to get an eyeful of pigeon shite on the second verse, and on the last verse often end up standing on a chair or stool (I've fallen off several times) with an empty beer bottle as a telescope in imitation of Nelson. |
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10 Jun 02 - 11:04 AM (#726970) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Trafalgar Square From: Steve Parkes Never heard that last verse, Dave--I'll haveto learn it (two verses is too short!) I daresay an empty bottle is better than a partly-empty one in this case? Steve |
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12 Jun 02 - 08:48 AM (#728237) Subject: Lyr Add: I LIVE IN TRAFALGAR SQUARE From: Jim Dixon Lyrics below copied from http://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/rschwart/hist256/music_hall_songs.html#trafalgar I arranged the lines to emphasize the rhyme. Dave Bryant's third verse above seems to be shorter than the 2 verses below. Is something wrong?
I LIVE IN TRAFALGAR SQUARE
1. Today I've been busy removing and I'm all in a frigidy-fidge.
CHO: I live in Trafalgar Square with four lions to guard me.
2. The beds ain't so soft as they might be. Still, the temperature's never too high. |
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12 Jun 02 - 10:28 AM (#728296) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Trafalgar Square From: Steve Parkes "To take a good walk 'fore [i.e. before] your breakfast ..." |
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13 Jun 02 - 05:26 AM (#729017) Subject: Lyr Add: I LIVE IN TRAFALGAR SQUARE From: Dave Bryant Whoops, I've left the last two lines off that verse, here it is complete. When I think of those unhappy fellas, The "Morgans" and the "Clarence de Clares". Wot 'as to put up down the "Cecil", My deepest sympathy's theirs. But to show I'm not selfish or greedy I tell each aristocrat. That I don't mind exchanging apartments Well you can't come no fairer than that! But those soft-headed ninnies don't hear what I say They go on suff'rin' while I'm here OK. It is an original verse, because I found it in a book of Music Hall songs. BTW, the 800 room Cecil Hotel in the Strand was the biggest hotel in Europe when it was built in 1886. |
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13 Jun 02 - 07:05 AM (#729053) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Trafalgar Square From: Mr Happy wefwesh |
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13 Jun 02 - 07:15 AM (#729057) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Trafalgar Square From: Mr Happy giok,greg,& Herga, clearly you like anagrams, palindromes etc; so to avoid thread drift, i'll make only one contribution to this one & then start another. an anagram of Trafalgar Square is 'SQUAR ARS GREAT LARF!'
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16 Dec 09 - 09:30 PM (#2790024) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I Live in Trafalgar Square (C. W. Murphy) From: Jim Dixon I am now the proud owner of a copy of Songs of the British Music Hall by Peter Davison (New York: Oak Publications, 1971), and so I am now able to provide the third verse. I have boldfaced the differences from Dave Bryant's version. 3. When I think of those unlucky bounders, The Morgans and Clarence de Clares, Who are forced to put up at the "Cecil," My tenderest sympathy's theirs! And to show I'm not selfish or greedy, I just tell each aristocrat That I don't mind exchanging apartments. Now, I can't say fairer than that! But the soft-headed sillies won't hear what I say. They still go on suff'ring, while I'm all O.K. |