{"id":3811,"date":"2020-06-20T10:11:06","date_gmt":"2020-06-20T10:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/folksongandmusichall.com\/?page_id=3811"},"modified":"2020-10-23T14:13:08","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T14:13:08","slug":"it-wont-last-very-very-long","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/folksongandmusichall.com\/index.php\/it-wont-last-very-very-long\/","title":{"rendered":"It won’t last very very long"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
AKA<\/strong><\/td>It won’t take very very long
The Cinderella<\/td><\/tr>
First Published<\/td> 1902<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Lyrics<\/strong><\/td>RP Weston<\/td>Music<\/strong><\/td>Frank W Carter<\/td>Roud<\/strong><\/td>RN10710<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Music Hall Performers<\/strong><\/td>Harry Champion<\/td><\/tr>
Folk performances<\/strong><\/td>Source Singers<\/strong>
Clifford Arbon, no date, Suffolk England
Fred Cottenham, no date, Kent England
Jim Copper, 1936, Sussex England
unidentified male, 1960 Sussex England
George Cowle, 1964\/65, Suffolk England
Hubert Bradley, 1972, Worcestershire England
Jimmy Knights, 1974 Suffolk England
Bill Smith, 1981, Shropshire England
Ray Driscoll, 1993, London England
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One fine night I toddled to a dance, what the people call a 'cinderella'\nI wore a button-hole, and the girls upon my soul\nSaid I was a 'pretty little feller'\nSoon to me came Arabella Brown, pulling up her railway sock\n'Oh Mr Winkle-pip, do have a waltz, it's just on twelve o' clock.\n\nSo it won't last very, very long\nIt won't last very, very long\nRound we went till I said, 'Whoa!\nThey'll be trouble in a tick, I know\nThere's buttons on my trousers, and the pin's not over strong\nRun away, Miss Brown, I must go and sit down\nAnd it won't last very, very long.'<\/em>\n\nLate last night - oh talk about a fright,\nTaking off my clobber I had just been\nI was dying with the pip - went to go to 'kip'\nSoon I heard a struggle in the dust-bin\nUp I shoved my window in a jiff, saw a tabby cat outside\nChasing another one around the yard, 'If that's your game,' I cried.\n\nIt won't last very, very long\nIt won't last very, very long\nOff I went and got my gun\nShot one bullet in his hot-cross-bun\nTom said, 'Now you've got a bull's eye\nMy bell goes ding-ding-dong\nYou've done quite enough to my little bit of fluff\nSo it won't last very, very long.'<\/em>\n\nYesterday I went and sold my horse\nReally ought to took him to the knacker's\nFor to make him go I always had to sew\nOn his tail a blooming lot of crackers\nI white-washed him out in the yard\nPut sticks in his ears somehow\nThey looked like horns, so I sold him for\nA good milking cow. But,\n\nIt won't last very, very long\nIt won't last very, very long\nThe rain came down, the white-wash dripped\nThe old milk man a big pail gripped\nHis old gal said, 'What a funny cow.\nSomething must be wrong.'\nThen cried, 'I suppose it's an overflow of milk\nAnd it won't last very, very long.'<\/em>\n\nLast week, straight, I went and won a pig\nGot it in a raffle for a tanner\nI didn't want to roam, quickly took it home\nAnd gave it to the old woman, Hannah\nFriday we made jelly of its feet\nSaturday we fried its head\nI made a bacca-pouch of its ears\nThen my old woman said,\n\nIt won't last very, very long\nIt won't last very, very long\nAll the kids they turn quite pale\nWhen we wallop them with that pig's tail\nOff its waistcoat of a night time\nWhen baby starts his song\nWe cut him off a button for an indiarubber teat\nSo it won't last very, very long.'<\/em><\/pre>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
Another early 20th century Music Hall song remembered by traditional singers the second half of the 20th century. Written by RP Weston<\/a> and sung by Harry Champion<\/a> in the Halls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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