{"id":3009,"date":"2020-05-16T10:50:58","date_gmt":"2020-05-16T10:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/folksongandmusichall.com\/?page_id=3009"},"modified":"2020-10-27T13:41:53","modified_gmt":"2020-10-27T13:41:53","slug":"somebody-would-shout-out-shop","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/folksongandmusichall.com\/index.php\/somebody-would-shout-out-shop\/","title":{"rendered":"Somebody would shout out shop"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Lyrics<\/strong><\/td>Weston and Lee<\/td>Music<\/strong><\/td>Weston and Lee <\/td>Roud<\/strong><\/td>21924<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Music Hall Performers<\/strong><\/td> Stanley Kirkby & Harry Hudson 1915<\/td><\/tr>
Folk performances<\/strong><\/td>Source singers<\/strong>
Albert “Wicketts” Richardson, 1964, Suffolk, England<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Ebenezer Johnson kept a grocery store\nHe'd a little lady that he used to adore\nShe would call around in the afternoon\nIn his small back parlour they would sit and spoon\nHe would entertain her in a lover-like way\nBut here is the mystery\nThough he hadn't taken any money all day\nThe minute she sat on his knee.\n\nSomebody would shout out shop\nSomebody would shout out shop\nJust as he was kissing her and making good\nSomebody would come in for a bundle of wood\nJust as he was giving Mabel a squeeze\nSomebody would come in for a quarter of cheese\nOh gee, it makes him feel so funny\nHe'd clean forget to take the money\nBack he'd go again and try to cuddle his honey\nAnd somebody would shout out shop, shop, shop\nSomebody would shout out shop.<\/em>\n\nIn the middle of a moment really sublime,\nIn would come a customer to ask him the time\nBack he'd go once more and say, \"Darn the shop!\"\nOnce again the question he'd try to pop\nHe would softly whisper in her dear little ear \n\"Oh marry me, Mabel, do!\" \nThen she'd hear a customer and answer, \"No fear!\"\nIf I went honeymooning with you..\n\n<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
This is not a song that has been widely adopted by many recording artists during the folk revival, at least not that I’m aware of – though it still appears in the repertoire of many Music Hall enthusiasts. It has been collected from the singing of Wicketts Richardson, one of a number of famous traditional singers based at the Old Blaxhall Ship pub. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
A World War 1 Music Hall song (published 1915) written by Weston and Lee <\/a>and performed by  Stanley Kirkby & Harry Hudson, a popular Music Hall act during the war and in the 1920s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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