{"id":10457,"date":"2021-05-03T15:08:23","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T15:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/folksongandmusichall.com\/?page_id=10457"},"modified":"2021-05-03T15:17:37","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T15:17:37","slug":"shift-up-a-little-bit-farther","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/folksongandmusichall.com\/index.php\/shift-up-a-little-bit-farther\/","title":{"rendered":"Shift up a little bit farther"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
AKA<\/strong><\/td>Uncle Jimmy has got a beautiful ruby tinted nose<\/td><\/tr>
First Published<\/td> 1903<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Writer\/composer<\/td>Arthur Aiston and FW Leigh<\/td>Roud<\/strong><\/td>RN5662<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Music Hall Performers<\/strong><\/td>Frank Coyne<\/td><\/tr>
Folk performances<\/strong><\/td>Collected from the singing of:<\/strong>
Copper, John; England Sussex; 1995<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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My uncle Jimmy has got a beautiful ruby tinted nose\nScotch, of, course, is out of the question, uncle says he\u2019s got indigestion.\nOnce he stood at a railway crossing to watch the trains go by.\nA railway porter standing near came up and shouted \u201cHi\n\nShift up a little bit farther, shift a little bit farther up.\nAt this spot there soon will arrive a\nFast express, you\u2019ll worry the driver\nWith that terrible nose, it\u2019s like a danger light.\nSo, shift a little bit farther, father, farther out of sight\u201d.<\/em>\n\nWell I went out with some friends of mine in a brand new motor car.\nWe was going from London to Dover, but before the journey was over,\nSomething seemed to go wrong with our machines inside.\nAgricultural labourers came to us and shouted \u201cHi\n\nShift up a little bit farther, shift a little bit farther up.\nWe never thought a traveling tinker\nCould be such a tiddley-winker.\nWe\u2019ve no kettles and pots for you to mend today,\nSo shift a little bit farther, father, farther on your way\u201d<\/em>.\n\nIt was down at Winkleton-Super-Mare on a lovely summer\u2019s day,\nPeople was gazing out in the ocean, they was causing quite a commotion.\nWhat\u2019s that strange old object there, a new sea monster p\u2019raps?\nWell I dashed up to them and said \u201cLook here, you girls and chaps\n\nShift up a little bit farther, shift a little bit farther up.\nWhat you seem to think is a sort a\nCuriosity in the water,\nThat\u2019s my missus and she\u2019ll be out in half a jiff,\nSo, shift a little bit farther, father, farther round the cliff\u201d.<\/em>\n\nMy aunt Maria is fairly heavy, she weighs a tidy lump.\nAunty, last bank holiday, tried a\nDonkey ride and all of us guide her.\nShe jumped up on the donkey\u2019s back, but the brute refused to stir.\nHe nods his head and winks his eye and then remarks to her:\n\n\u201cShift up a little bit farther, shift a little bit farther up.\nPlease excuse me being so grumpy,\nBut you are a little bit lumpy.\nI can\u2019t waggle my tail, the flies give me the hump,\nSo, shift a little bit farther, father, farther off my stump\u201d.<\/em><\/pre>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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This is one of two songs sung by Frank Coyne<\/a> which feature in the repertoire of the Copper Family and may have been heard by Jim Copper when he visited London in the early 1900s. The other is The horse the missis dries the clothes on<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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