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Writer\/composer<\/td>Harry Linn<\/td>Roud<\/strong><\/td>RN13646<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Music Hall Performers<\/strong><\/td>Harry Linn, Fred B Norton<\/td><\/tr>
Folk performances<\/strong><\/td>Source Singers<\/strong>
Pardon, Walter 1980 England : Norfolk
Unwin, Jean no date Scotland \/ South Africa<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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I have a wife, the funniest wife that ever you did see \nMorning, evening, noon or night \nThere is no rest for me\nWhenever I lie down to sleep \nAnd tried to close my eyes, \nMy wife she jumps right out of bed \nAnd this is what she cries \n\nWake-up Johnny, wake-up John, \nWake-up Johnny put your \"Sydenhams\" on, \nThe clock's struck six, and the mornings fine, \nAnd this week I want a little bit of overtime.<\/em>\n\nI am a very steady chap, \nI never take the booze, \nBut when I've done a hard days work \nI like a little snooze \nOf course I tumbles into bed, \nBut as sure as I'm alive, \nMy wife shouts out \"it's half past six\" \nWhen it's only half past five\n\n[Spoken] Talk about the nightmare, she never gives me time to have it, for directly I lay my head on the pillow, she cries \u2013\n\nMy wife is fond of overtime, \nShe has got it on the brain, \nWhen I work 12 hours a day, \nShe never will complain,\nShe hates the nine hours movement \nAnd says \"It's all my eye\"\nFor man was only made to work \nAnd that's what make makes her cry\n\nI've got three little daughters, \nI've got three little son, \nThey'll keep shouting \"Wake-up John!\"\nAs soon daylight comes \nI'm very sad, I'm nearly mad, \nFor as I walk along \nThe people say \"There's overtime!\"\nAnd \"Won't you wake-up John?\" \n\n[Spoken] Yes it's hard lines, when I go out for a stroll on Sundays, dressed in my best, fancying I am Lord Copall or Major Stick-to-it,to hear the lads say...\n<\/pre>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
A song by Harry Linn <\/a>which does not appear in any broadsides that I can find, and only in one song book. It was remembered by Walter Pardon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was adverised in 1877:<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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The Era 26 1877<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
The song was sung as part of a series of fragments by Walter Pardon alongside\u00a0Saving them all for Mary<\/a><\/a>, \u00a0When the cock begins to crow<\/a>, and Down by the old abbey ruins<\/a>. You can here them at the\u00a0Vaughn Williams Memorial Library<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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