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First Published<\/td>1905<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Writer\/composer<\/td>Harry Wincott<\/td>Roud<\/strong><\/td>RN1495<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Music Hall Performers<\/strong><\/td>Fred hill<\/td><\/tr>
Folk performances<\/strong><\/td>Source Singers<\/strong>
Hart, Bob 1969 England : Suffolk<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Now I know a feller who has just got wed,\nOnly this morning unto him I said\n\"Where are you going to, to spend, old man\nYour honeymoon along with Mary Ann?\"\nHe whispered in my ear \"We shall spend our honeymoon\nIn a railway tunnel, mate, and save a bit of rent.\"\nBut I couldn't help but shouting soon,\n\nWhat a funny little place to have one,\nWhat a funny little place I say.\nYou can't see each other, for it must be dark,\nYou can't have a cuddle or a nice old lark.\nI've heard of people going to a hotel or a flat,\nSomewhere on the quiet for to spend a honeymoon,\nBut never in a place like that.<\/em>\n\nPoor Ma lost her nose the other day,\nSeeking a bad escape of gas, they say.\nShe went to the hospital, along with Pa,\nThey stuck an artificial nose on Ma.\nBut it would not stick on where a boko ought to be,\nSo the doctor made a hole just a little lower down\nAnd he stuck it on her chin, you see.\n\nWhat a funny little place to have one,\nWhat a funny little place I say.\nThe baby clutches it and grabs it, oh,\nThinks it is a little feeeding bottle, it's true.\nIt's like some big tomato, it is so red and fat.\nI've seen a lot of funny noses in me time,\nBut I've never seen a nose like that.<\/em>\n\nNow my brother Tommy joined the Volunteers,\nWhen he went away we gave three cheers.\nIn his uniform he did look grand,\n'Til he came home on his furlough, and\nHe had his Scotch kilt on, and a Scotch cap on his head,\nBut the way that he wore that little fillet-bag!\nAll the neighbours looked at him and said;\n\nWhat a funny little place to have one;\nWhat a funny little place, I say.\"\nOh, there it was, hangin' round his neck, oh dear!\nLike a bunch of whiskers, only not round here!\nOur servant, she said \"Tommy, I'll get you a pussy-cat;\nNo girl will want to stroke your little fillet-bag\nIf you wear it in a place like that!\"<\/em>\n\nNow I shan't forget the day when I took Mother Brown\nInto the country, and we both sat down\nIn a field where it was full of hay;\nDon't I recollect that summer's day.\nShe said a mosquito had gone down her back, you see,\nAns she wanted me to try and get it out,\nBut I shouted \"Goodness gracious me!\n\nWhat a funny little place to have one;\nWhat a funny little place, I say.\"\nShe said \"It's now down the middle of me back,\nOh, do put you finger down and try to get it, Jack.\"\nI shouted Holy Moses!\u00a0 You are a saucy cat.\nI'd do it in a minute, if 'twas anywhere else,\nBut I couldn't in a place like that!\"<\/em>\n<\/pre>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
Another turn-of-the-century Music Hall song remembered by traditional singers the latter part of the 20th century. Another one written by Harry Wincott.<\/a> It does not seem to have been a particularly popular song – but it was in the repertoire of Fred Hill a ventriloquist and comedian who toured with  Fred Brightmer’s Ladies Sailor Choir in around 1910<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I have been unable to source the original sheet music or a contemporary source for the words as sung originally, so the lyrics printed above are reproduced from the sleeve notes of Bob Hart’s CD available on the Mustrad website. You can here Bob Hart sing it here<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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