Castling, Harry

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:

  1. Are we to part like this Bill?
  2. Boers have got my daddy, The
  3. Bombay
  4. Bumpity Bump
  5. Cooking the Cock of the North
  6. It’s the only bit of English that we’ve got
  7. Just like the ivy
  8. More trouble in our native land
  9. Oh! Let me have another one, Georgie
  10. Our threepenny hop
  11. Put a bit of powder on it, Father
  12. Serving em all alike
  13. She told me to meet her at the gate
  14. She’s good enough for my Wife
  15. The Singer was Irish
  16. Strolling round the town; or The Rickety Rackety Crew
  17. The Tramp
  18. Turned up
  19. Up the little gravel path
  20. We all go the same way home
  21. What are you going to do about Mary
  22. When there isn’t a girl about
  23. When they ask you what your name is
  24. When you wake up in the morning
  25. Why don’t you marry the girl?

See also these songs not (I think) ever collected from traditional singers, but well-known anyway..