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First Published<\/td>1896<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Writer\/composer<\/td>Wincott \/ Leighton<\/td>Roud<\/strong><\/td>RN23316<\/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>
Smith, Bill 1979 England, Shropshire<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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There's some lodgers a-living with us\nAnd they've made such a terrible fuss\nThey brought a chicken for dinner today\nWanted it cooked I heard 'em say\nMother she soon cleaned up the hob\nCharged 'em a bob for doing the job\nWhen that chicken was cooked, Oh lor\nThe lodgers came down, and I had to roar.\n\nWe've all been having a go at it\nAll been having a go at it\nSomebody's pinched its wings and toes\nI had a bit off the Parson's nose\nOh, good gracious, didn't we make a show\nSeventeen of us... beside myself...\nAnd we've all been having a go.<\/em>\n\nTalk about a penn'orth of fun\nYesterday it fair took the bun\nIn came the brokers to collar our sticks\nBut we were up to all their tricks\nMother she chased 'em round the room\nSettled their doom with a big broom\nAnd when Father came home at night\nAnd said, Where's the brokers?' I yelled - all right,\n\nWe've all been having a go at 'em\nAll been having a go at 'em\nOne's in the dust hole - minus pants\nAnother's gone home in an ambulance\nOh good gracious, didn't they shout - what Oh,\nSeventeen of us... beside myself...\nAnd we've all been having a go<\/em>.\n\nMr Jones our neighbour next door\nWent away for two weeks or more\nHe left his bicycle out in a shed\nOne day I spotted it, and I said\n'Let's take it out and learn to ride'\nEach of us tried - quite satisfied\nOh, that bicycle fit for a prince\nIt isn't worth tuppence for old lumber since\n\nWe've all been having a go at it\nAll been having a go at it\nMother rode on it all up the street\nBusted the tyres and broke the seat\nOh, good gracious, didn't we make a show\nSeventeen of us... beside myself...\nAnd we've all been having a go<\/em>\n\nAunt Jemima's come to stay\nWith us for a short holiday\nShe's brought a bottle of sea water home\nStraight away from the briny foam\nIn it she has her morning splosh\nDoes it a nosh, it is a wash\nSince we tumbled to what it was\nShe can't have her bath, and it's all because.\n\nWe've all been having a go at it\nAll been having a go at it\nKidding ourselves we're in the sea\nTalk of the water in the Lea\nOh, good gracious, isn't it thick, what Oh,\nSeventeen of us... beside myself...\nAnd we've all been having a go.<\/em><\/pre>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
Another perhaps slightly obscure music hall song remembered by a single performer in the south-east of England, though it also appears on one broadside in the Bodleian. This one was performed in the halls by Harry Champion<\/a>, and written by the prolific Harry Wincott.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
The version performed by Bill Smith is available on the VWML site<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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