{"id":8599,"date":"2021-01-27T10:58:31","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T10:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/folksongandmusichall.com\/?page_id=8599"},"modified":"2021-01-27T10:58:34","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T10:58:34","slug":"side-by-side-danny-brazil-parody","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/folksongandmusichall.com\/index.php\/side-by-side-danny-brazil-parody\/","title":{"rendered":"Side by side (Danny Brazil parody)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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First Published<\/td>1927 (orig)<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Writer\/composer<\/td>unknown, parody of Harry Wood song<\/td>Roud<\/strong><\/td>RN29927<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Music Hall Performers<\/strong><\/td>Florrie Forde (orig)<\/td><\/tr>
Folk performances<\/strong><\/td>Source Singers<\/strong>
Brazil, Danny ; England: Gloucestershire; 1977<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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I saw a couple last evening \nGum sucking down in our lane\nBoys, I wouldn\u2019t do a thing like that \nIf I had my time a gain\nShe was a calling him honey \nHe was a calling her pet\nThat was just the way that me and my old girl \nFell in the net\n\nOh I went for a walk with my honey\nMay be you think we looked funny\nWe walked many a mile \nPast many a stile \nSide by side\nAnd when we got tired of walking \nWe stopped and we started to talking\nLooking in one another\u2019s eyes \nTelling nohing but lies, \nSide by side\n\nIf I hadn\u2019t stopped there talking \nBeneath the garden wall\nIf I\u2019d have kept on walking \nI wouldn\u2019t bin married at all\n\nOh you boys who\u2019s about to begin it,\nTake a tip from a mug that fell in it,\nDon\u2019t stop to talk, \nKeep on the walk\nSide by side.\n\nNow, if you take a couple first married, \nThey\u2019re sloppy to a degree\nBut any man could be happy \nIf they wasn\u2019t such a mug as me.\nShe\u2019d drink it out of a bucket, \nShe learnt the habit from me\nOnly just the other day we went out on a spree\n \nOh I just won a barrel of money\nI went on a spree with my honey\nWe was having our fling \nTill she started to sing\nSide by side.\nMy wife has a voice like someone being throttled\nWhen the landlord said \n\u2019Give her a bottle\nThere isn\u2019t no doubt they\u2019ll have to get out\nSide by side.\u2019\n \nMy wife with a face like leather she refused to budge a stride\nSo they bunged us out together\nAnd we landed on the opposite side\n\nOh the boys come along and they lynched us\nThen a bobby come along and he pinched us\nTo end a sad tale, we landed in jail\nSide by side.\n \nNow I went home to my wife it was late the other night\nAnd when that I reached home I saw a pretty sight\nAnd the doctor said \u2019Hello sonny\u2019\nMaybe you think that it\u2019s funny\nI said with a grin\n\u2019Give it to him\nHe\u2019s outside\u2019\n\nSure\u2019 he said \u2019you ought to be a proud daddy\u2019\nI said \u2019Is it a girl or a laddie\u2019\nHe never spoke then I said \u2019What\u2019s the joke?\u2019\nThen he replied:\n\u2019You\u2019ve caused a great sensation that tongue will never tell\nYou\u2019ve got my congratulation and old king George\u2019s as well\u2019\nFor it\u2019s up the stairs I started\nAnd I fell in the room broken-hearted\nThere on my life lay three and the wife\nSide by side! \n<\/pre>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
The original Side by side<\/a><\/em> by Harry Wood, was an American Tin Pan Alley song sung in the halls by Florrie Forde<\/a>. However, in late 1920s Britain, Music Hall was no longer the only way that most working people got to hear new songs and it would have been heard on the radio and elsewhere. So we can’t confidently say that Music Hall was the source of traditional versions of this song\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
This particular parody was collected by Gwilym Davies from the singing of Danny Brazil and is available to hear on the Glostrad site<\/a>. It appears to be unique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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