In progress….
Harry Castling (1865-1933) wrote the words to huge number of songs, both comic and sentimental, including Just like the Ivy, Don’t have any more Mrs Moore and Look what Percy picked up in the park. He was the son of a street musician but could not write notated music himself.
Some of the songs which he wrote/co-wrote which have been collected from traditional singers:
- Are we to part like this Bill?
- Boers have got my daddy, The
- Bombay
- Bumpity Bump
- Cooking the Cock of the North
- It’s the only bit of English that we’ve got
- Just like the ivy
- More trouble in our native land
- Oh! Let me have another one, Georgie
- Our threepenny hop
- Put a bit of powder on it, Father
- Serving em all alike
- She told me to meet her at the gate
- She’s good enough for my Wife
- The Singer was Irish
- Strolling round the town; or The Rickety Rackety Crew
- The Tramp
- Turned up
- Up the little gravel path
- We all go the same way home
- What are you going to do about Mary
- When there isn’t a girl about
- When they ask you what your name is
- When you wake up in the morning
- Why don’t you marry the girl?
See also these songs not (I think) ever collected from traditional singers, but well-known anyway..
Last Updated on April 26, 2023 by John Baxter | Published: May 10, 2022
