{"id":1165,"date":"2020-02-24T13:22:52","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T13:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/folksongandmusichall.com\/?page_id=1165"},"modified":"2025-12-09T22:26:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T22:26:24","slug":"dont-have-any-more-mrs-moore","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/folksongandmusichall.com\/index.php\/dont-have-any-more-mrs-moore\/","title":{"rendered":"Don’t have any more, Mrs Moore"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
First published<\/td>1929<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Lyrics<\/strong><\/td>Harry Castling<\/td>Music<\/strong><\/td>James Walsh <\/td>Roud<\/strong><\/td><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Music Hall performers<\/strong><\/td>Lily Morris <\/td><\/tr>
Folk performances<\/strong><\/td>??<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
Missus Moore, who lives next door, she's such a dear old soul\nOf children she's a score or more, her husband's on the dole\nI don't know how she manages to keep that lot I'm sure\nI said to her today as she was standing at the door.\n\nDon't have any more Missus Moore\nMissus Moore, please don't have any more\nThe more you have the more you want, they say\nBut enough is a good as a feast any day\nIf you have many more Missus Moore\nYou'll have to rent the house next door\nThey're alright when they're here\nBut take my advice old dear\nDon't have any more Missus Moore.<\/em>\n\nThe local Inn she uses is called the wooden hut\nShe's first one in at opening time, and last out when they shut\nAnd when she's had a few, its true, she can't go very far\nAnd you can hear them singing this to her across the bar.\n\nDon't have any more Missus Moore\nMissus Moore, please don't have any more\nThe more you have the more you want, they say\nBut enough is a good as a feast any day\nIf you have many more Missus Moore\nYou'll never get to your street door\nToo many double gins gives the ladies double chins\nSo don't have any more Missus Moore.<\/em>\n\nShe's had no end of husbands that in love with her have fell\nAnd this one is her seventh one and he don't look too well\nShe married him a year ago and on their wedding day\nAs they were walking down the isle I heard the parson say.\n\nDon't have any more Missus Moore\nMissus Moore, please don't have any more\nThe more you have the more you want, they say\nBut enough is a good as a feast any day\nIf you have many more Missus Moore\nI don't know what we'll do I'm sure\nOur churchyard is so small they'll be no room for them at all\nSo don't have any more Missus Moore.<\/em> <\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Don’t have any more Mrs Moore was written by  <\/em>Harry Castling<\/strong><\/a> with music composed by James Walsh. The little I can find out about James Walsh appears below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A recording or download of this song can be purchased from Windyridge CDs.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
James Walsh <\/strong>(b?-1955) was a songwriter\/composer active in the period immediately after World War I and the 1920s. He wrote a number of songs with Val Watson which were published by Feldman’s  and Darewski’s, but also worked collaboratively with Thomas McGhee, Herbert Rule and others. Reading between the lines I suspect he was a member of Feldman’s in-house songwriting team at some point. In the late 1920s he  worked as a performer in Bert Feldman’s Blackpool Companies – which operated out of song parlours and booths performing songs in order to sell Feldman’s sheet music.  Other songs he contributed to include What Should We Do Without Gravy? <\/em>and Fill ‘Em Up<\/em>. Further research is needed to find out more about his later career,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Lily Morris<\/strong> (1882 to 1952) is perhaps most often remembered for two songs: “Why Am I Always The Bridesmaid” and this one. She was born in Holborn in central London, daughter of a tobacconist who originally came from Ireland . She began her professional career at 10 years old and as a teenager earned considerable money in pantomime. Later in life she tended to sing songs and play characters who had had a little too much to drink. She toured internationally and was a big hit throughout the English-speaking world. She appeared in several films in the 1930s. She is an interesting and important character in the late music halls, and if you want to investigate her further the fullest biography is the chapter in The Lost World of Music Hall<\/em> by Derek Sculthorpe. Other  songs from Lily Moore’s repertoire which feature  in this site:<\/p>\n\n\n\n