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First Published<\/td>1918<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Writer\/composer<\/td>Nat D. Ayer and Bert Lee<\/td>Roud<\/strong><\/td>RN18433<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Music Hall Performers<\/strong><\/td>Jack Pleasants<\/td><\/tr>
Folk performances<\/strong><\/td>Source Singers<\/strong>
Cann, Bob 1969 England : Devon
Arnold, Bob 1993 England : Oxfordshire
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Although I've a striking appearance no doubt\nNobody notices me when I'm out\nI can't understand it, it doesn't seem right\nIn fact as I walked on the stage here tonight.\n\nNobody noticed me, nobody noticed me\nIt's always been so since that wonderful morn\nThat wonderful morn on the day I was born\nThe room I was born in was large\nAnd I was so tiny you see\nThat I never got fed for the first seven weeks\n'Cos nobody noticed me.<\/em>\n\nOne day for excitement I rode in a train\nI sat with my nose glued right up to the pane\nA bridegroom got in with his blushing young bride\nI sat very still with my head on one side.\n\nNobody noticed me, nobody noticed me\nWe entered a tunnel without any light\nI heard the bride giggle and whisper in fright\n'Oh do give up kissing me, George.'\n'I haven't kissed you.' answered he\nShe said, 'Well if you haven't, somebody has.'\nBut nobody noticed me.<\/em>\n\nOnce with some pals at the sea-side I saw\nA young ladies school bathing down on the shore\nThey bobbed up and down in the water so clear\nA board on the beach said 'No mixed bathing here.'\n\nNobody noticed me, nobody noticed me\nSo I got my new little bathing suit out\nAnd went in the sea and floated about\nThey never suspected at all\nExcept one young lady, and she\nSaid, 'It's queer, but a crab keeps on nipping my leg\nBut nobody noticed me.<\/em>\n\nLast leap year I met a young lady named Flo\nShe quickly proposed and I daren't say no\nThe day we were married I stood by her side\nThe parson shook hands with the best man and bride.\n\nNobody noticed me, nobody noticed me\nBehind her bouquet I stood quiet and still\nAnd just popped my head round and answered 'I will'\nAnd when we got home later on, I felt so dead tired don't you see\nI crawled under the bed and I laid there all night\nAnd nobody noticed me.<\/em>\n<\/pre>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
An early 20th century song from the Halls, remembered 50 years later by traditional singers in the south of England. Bob Cann recalled hearing it from “a travelling drover that would travel around local markets and fairs”<\/em> – so it wasn’t directly remembered from Music Hall performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jack Pleasants (1874-1924) was a Bradford comedian whose act involved him playing an extremely shy young man. His career started at a Talent Night at the Scarborough Hotel, where his act impressed the booker for a chain of northern music halls. One of his biggest hits was I’m Twenty-one Today<\/em>, a song which has not been forgotten, even if the name of the original singer largely has… Nobody notices me<\/em> was another song which played on his characters bashfulness. e was particularly popular in Lancashire:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Nelson Leader <\/a>– Friday 16 September 1921<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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