Reet up to T’Mark
| AKA | |
| First Published | 1920 |
| Writer/composer | Arthur E Carthy | Roud | RNnone |
| Music Hall Performers | Jack Pleasants |
| Folk performances | Collected from the singing of:
Modern performances: |
Everything is peaches in the USA
That's what all Yankee ragtime singers say
You must be tired of songs in praise of places o'er the foam
So here's a song to sing about a place much nearer home
Just hear the melody, and sing it then with me ...
Everything in Lancashire is reet up t'mark
Reet up t'mark, aye, reet up t'mark
That's the place where they say "Tha nos"
"Ee bah gum!" They never give a button if it snows!
Everything in Lancashire is reet up t'mark
And it's a champion place to have a lark
We don't care a pot of jam
What they do in Alabam
Everything in Lancashire is reet up t'mark!
There are fields of cotton down in Caroline
Lancashire has reels of cotton just as fine
Tennessee has black eyed Susans, they may be all right
Lancashire has black-eyed Lizzies every Saturday night
Although it may be grand, way down in Dixieland ...
Not a song that has passed into the repertoire of any traditional singers that I’m aware of. It’s included here despite this…
It was a hit for Jack Pleasants whose stage character was a shy, gentle Northerner. Available for purchase on the Windyridge CD or Download – Jack Pleasants: I’m Shy Mary Ellen I’m shy
It was also recorded by Fred Gibson:
Sources:
- VWML entry
- Kilgarrif Sing Us
- Lyrics: Transcribed from Windyridge CD
- WorldCat Entry