{"id":3823,"date":"2020-06-20T17:34:29","date_gmt":"2020-06-20T17:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/folksongandmusichall.com\/?page_id=3823"},"modified":"2025-12-08T19:27:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T19:27:07","slug":"and-his-days-work-was-done","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/folksongandmusichall.com\/index.php\/and-his-days-work-was-done\/","title":{"rendered":"And His Day’s Work was Done"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
AKA<\/strong><\/td>His day’s work was done
Beery Bob<\/td><\/tr>
First Published<\/td>1903<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Writer\/composer<\/td>\tTW Connor<\/td>Roud<\/strong><\/td>RN12908<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Music Hall Performers<\/strong><\/td>\tGeorge Brooks, Harry Carlton<\/td><\/tr>
Folk performances<\/strong><\/td>Source Singers<\/strong>
Tom Bush, 1960s, Suffolk England
Bob Hart, 1969, Suffolk England
Manny Aldous, no date, Suffolk England<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Oh I often lie a-bed and think what an awful thing is work\nI know a lot who's started it and finished with a jerk\nThere's bleary Bobby got a job to drive a motor car\nSaid, 'Blow the p'lice, I'll let them see I know what motors are\nOne hundred miles an hour he went and quite enjoyed the fun\nTill a brewers dray got in the way and his days' work was done.\n\nA shooting competition was the end of Jimmy Dubb\nHe got the job as marker for the first time in his pub\nHe didn't understand the work and when he heard the shot\nHe thought it must be time for him to go and mark the spot\nHe stood in front of the target to see which man had won\nAnd he got a shot on a tender spot and his day's work was done.\n\nA man was up a ladder, cleaning winders was his job;\nBut all the time was spooning with young Missis Thingmabob.\nHer husband came along just as their heads in kisses met;\nHe didn't rave or carry on as though he was upset.\nHe simply pulled the ladder away and said, \"This takes the bun.\"\nThe man at the top, he came down plop and his day's work was done.\n\nTo be a strong man was the fad of Jerry Macintyre\nAnd just for practice now and then he'd let himself for hire\nHe went to do a moving job some heavy things to shift\nHe thought he'd really like to see how much weight he could uplift\nWith a grand piano on his back, upstairs he tried to run\nTrod on a stair that wasn't there and his day's work was done.\n\nNow Pat he went for a sailor and he thought the job was soft,\nNo sooner had he started than he was ordered up aloft.\nHe funked a bit, but up he went, in fact, he had no choice,\nWas hanging on the top-mast when he heard the Captain's voice.\n\"Let go that rope\" the Captain yells to Pat, he means this one;\nLet go came tumbling down below and his day's work was done.\n\nI know a man who got a job with a menagerie\nWas just to feed the animals, as easy as can be\nHe didn't know their habits, that was the funny part\nBut when the feeding time came round he had to make a start\nHe went into the lion's den and offered it a bun\nThe lion smiled and then got wild and his day's work was done.<\/pre>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
Another early 20th century Music Hall song remembered in the late 20th century by the traditional singers of south-east England. It was written an composed by the prolific  TW Connor<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n
A recording or download of this song can be purchased from Windyridge CDs.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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