{"id":11276,"date":"2021-06-09T15:37:44","date_gmt":"2021-06-09T15:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/folksongandmusichall.com\/?page_id=11276"},"modified":"2025-12-09T10:27:51","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T10:27:51","slug":"come-in-the-parlour-charley","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/folksongandmusichall.com\/index.php\/come-in-the-parlour-charley\/","title":{"rendered":"Come in the parlour, Charley"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
AKA<\/strong><\/td>Come in the parlour, Charlie<\/td><\/tr>
First Published<\/td>1909<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Writer\/composer<\/td>Orlando Powell \/ JP Harrington<\/td>Roud<\/strong><\/td>RN29962<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Music Hall Performers<\/strong><\/td>Florrie Forde<\/td><\/tr>
Folk performances<\/strong><\/td>Collected from the singing of:<\/strong>
Buckingham, Billy; England : Gloucestershire; 1979<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Charley was one of the boys, you know, Charley was one of the best\nHe loved a dear little thing in a skirt, awfully pert, Little Miss Burke\nOne night he waited outside her house, her father was down on him\nIn less than a second she said as she beckoned him into the doorway dim\n\nCome in the parlour Charlie, come in the parlour do\nEverybody is out tonight except myself and you\nWhen they opened the door, love, it rings the electric bell\nWhile as for the dear old sofa it squeaks but it never tells <\/em>\n\nCharlie was fickle and proved untrue, Charlie was fickle sometimes\nShe got her own back and she took him to court, action she brought, damages sought\n'What did he say to you? What did he do?' The judge asked the blushing Miss\nShe said 'Why the duffer, made my sofa suffer as soon as I murmured this:\n\nChorus x2\n<\/pre>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
Florrie Forde<\/a> sang this song in the period before World War 1 – it was written by Orlando Powell and JP Harrington. It was recorded both by Forde and in a shortened form, by Harry Kenrick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Billy Buckingham sang it for Gwilym Davies in Stonehouse, Gloucestershire in the late 1970s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A recording or download of this song can be purchased from Windyridge CDs.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Harry Kenrick’s version:<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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