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16 Dec 04 - 09:00 AM (#1358594) Subject: Lyr Req: Dreadfully Shy From: MMario this is a query from a friend: I am looking for the name and a possible recording of a song that I only know as being from the Victorian era with a chorus that goes something like this.... "Shy, shy, shy, shy Oh I'm so dreadfully shy Shy, shy, shy, shy I can not look a girl in the eye For I'm so dreadfully shy"anyone recognise it? |
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16 Dec 04 - 06:57 PM (#1359169) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dreadfully Shy From: Matthew Edwards George Withers sings a song with the words "I be terrible shy...", but I'll have to check the rest of the words to see if there's any relation to the requested lyrics. |
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17 Dec 04 - 01:35 AM (#1359384) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dreadfully Shy From: Malcolm Douglas Shy, shy, dreadfully shy, I expect: a music hall song associated with George Leybourne, who is perhaps best remembered for Champagne Charlie and The [Man on the] Flying Trapeze, which he wrote with Albert Lee. At Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads: Shy! shy dreadfully shy! |
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17 Dec 04 - 05:07 AM (#1359466) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dreadfully Shy From: The Fooles Troupe "I'm shy Mary Ellen I'm shy" was a big music hall hit. The BBC TV show "Black & White Minstrels" used to do it. Can't give any more help at the moment, the memeory is not consistent - Parody Error! Squawk! |
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17 Dec 04 - 04:26 PM (#1359951) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dreadfully Shy From: Q (Frank Staplin) Search quirk alert- shy, shy or dreadfully shy doesn't work. Has to be shy! |
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17 Dec 04 - 07:08 PM (#1360064) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dreadfully Shy From: The Fooles Troupe Is it this one? I'm Shy, Mary Ellen |
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19 Dec 04 - 02:46 PM (#1361289) Subject: Lyr Add: SHY! SHY!! DREADFULLY SHY! (from Bodleian From: Jim Dixon From Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads, 2806 c.16(172) and Harding B 11(3776). SHY! SHY!! DREADFULLY SHY! ------------------------------------ T. Pearson, Printer, 4 & 6. Chadderton St., Oldham Road, Manchester ------------------------------------ Sung by George Leybourne. Music at Hopwood and Crew's, London. [between 1850 and 1899] Had I been a monk or a hermit that dwelt In a cave where the world could not see, I then might be quiet, collected, and cool; But fate has not will'd it to be. I'm thrown on the world with its troubles and trials. To avoid them I ev'ry day try. I'm nervous, fidgety, very reserved. In fact, I'm most awfully shy. I can't look a girl in the face but I blush, For I feel most awfully shy. CHORUS: Shy, shy, shy, shy, Oh! I'm shy—dreadfully shy. Shy, shy, shy, shy, I can't pass a stay shop, because I'm so shy. Some people go to the theatre each night To see actresses dress'd "comme il faut," But I never will cast my eyes on the stage, Unless the footlights they're put low. There's the ballet girls too, so graceful to view. To see them is stretched ev'ry eye. To some this is good, but 'tis not to me, For I feel most awfully shy. Ballet girls' movements are all very well, But I feel so wretchedly shy. CHORUS: Shy, shy, shy, shy, Oh! I'm shy—dreadfully shy. Shy, shy, shy, shy, I would if I could, but I can't, I'm so shy. For all I'm so shy, I once fell in love; To my sweetheart no question could pop; For hours I would sit by my loved one and say Nothing! and then I would stop. She put the question. I blushing said "yes," Got married, felt I should die; To think of the future, tears came to my eyes. I felt so terribly shy. Yes, to think of the future, tears came to my eyes, For I felt so uncommonly shy. CHORUS: Shy, shy, shy, shy, Oh! I'm shy—dreadfully shy. Shy, shy, shy, shy, When I put on the ring, I was awfully shy. |
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16 Feb 09 - 06:47 AM (#2568111) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dreadfully Shy From: GUEST,Bob I swing the bells louder till my ears go quite deaf and the pigeons and pilgrims act decidedly rough but I can't date Esmeralda, for all that I try because, like coconuts, I'm immovably shy - I'm just so dreadfully shy! |
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01 Jan 10 - 03:14 PM (#2800929) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Shy Shy Dreadfully Shy From: GUEST,Shy x3 Hey..fresh from Xmas.. Charles Dickins' A Christmas Carol.. This is called 'Topper's Song' from the UK TV Soundtrack..u can get it on Amazon. My sis, her kids and her hubby..we love this one. Very funny. And somehow...true.. Llewellyn. |
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30 Dec 10 - 10:08 AM (#3063781) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Shy Shy Dreadfully Shy From: GUEST It's a song called Topper's Song and available on the CD soundtrack of A Christmas Carol. The with Scrooge played by Patrick Stewart. |
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01 Aug 12 - 03:08 PM (#3384753) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Shy Shy Dreadfully Shy From: GUEST,Brian McInnis What was a stay shop? |
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01 Aug 12 - 03:16 PM (#3384757) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Shy Shy Dreadfully Shy From: GUEST,Eliza Stays were a type of corset made of whalebone and laced tightly all down the back and front. One bought a 'pair of stays' because it came in two sections. The shy man felt embarrassed even going past these corset shops, as they probably had some of their wares on display in the window. |
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01 Aug 12 - 03:28 PM (#3384764) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Shy Shy Dreadfully Shy From: GUEST,Brian McInnis Arigato, Eliza. |
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02 Aug 12 - 09:18 AM (#3385033) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Shy Shy Dreadfully Shy From: GUEST,Charles Macfarlane The Electropathics used to do a song called "Very Shy" ... Batteries Not Included ... track 2. |