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First Published<\/td>1911<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Writer\/composer<\/td>CW Murphy and Harry Casting<\/td>Roud<\/strong><\/td>RN32456<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Music Hall Performers<\/strong><\/td>Charles Whittle<\/td><\/tr>
Folk performances<\/strong><\/td>Collected from the singing of:<\/strong>
Charles Keeping and family; England : London; 1930s
Sykes, Jack; England: Yorkshire; 1969
Modern performances<\/strong>
Chas N Dave<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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The wedding day was over, and the party breaking up\nAll the guests were making for the door\nAnd as they danced along the hall like children on the sands\nThe bride and bridegroom stood there holding hands\nThe comp'ny wished the couple health and wealth, too\nAnd were dispersing - in twos and threes\nWhen Johnson through the din and noise\nCried to all the girls and boys,'Come, come get together please.'\n\n'We all go the same way home\nAll the whole collection in the same direction\nAll go the same way home so there's no need to part at all\nWe all go the same way home\nLet's be gay and hearty, don't break up the party\nWe'll cling together like the ivy on the old garden wall.'<\/em>\n\nA rajah gay was trav'ling back to India once again\nWith his four-and-twenty little wives\nIn one compartment of the train with all of them he got\nTo keep his jealous eye upon the lot\nA porter shouted, 'Hi, you're overcrowding\nThere's room for ten in here, not twenty-four.'\nThe rajah answered, 'We're all right, though packed in rather tight\nDon't you worry any more.'\n\nWhen Noah looked from the Ark one day and found the rain had stopped\nAnd the streets were beautiful and dry\nSaid he, 'I haven't had a stroll for forty days or more.'\nThen out he went and never shut the door\nThe animals came tramping down the gang-way, the alligator - the kangaroo\nA blue-faced monkey led the throng, screaming as they marched along\n'Hi! hi! this way for the Zoo!.'\n\nJust by the House of Commons stood a band of Suffragettes\nAnd the lot were screaming for the 'vote'\nWhen all at once there came a crowd of gentlemen in blue\nAnd very quickly captured all the crew\nThe prison van was ordered from the station\nAnd soon the ladies were far from gay\nThe driver crackked his whip and cried, when the lot were packed inside\n'Last bus girls to Holloway.'<\/pre>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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A popular World War I marching song remembered by Charles Keeping’s family and later collected by Steve Gardham from the singing of Jack Sykes – you can listen to the recording online from the British Library<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The song was originally a big hit in 1911 for Charles Whittle – whose brief biography appears below. It was written and composed by CW Murphy <\/a>and Harry Castling<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The tune of the chorus seems to have been borrowed from Gilbert and Sullivan’s Pirate’s chorus <\/em>from the comic opera The Pirates Of Penzance<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Not to be confused with Harry Lauder’s We all go hame the same way<\/a> – a song with different words and music.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
Charles R Whittle (1874-1947)<\/strong>  also known as Charlie Whittle,  was born in Bradford in 1874. As a a young man he worked in an ironworks whilst in his spare time appearing as a semiprofessional vocalist at local tavern sing-songs. He became a full-time professional in 1897 and had his London debut two years later. His most famous songs were probably Let’s all go down the Strand, We all go the same way home <\/em> and Put me among the girls<\/a><\/em>. He continued to appear on stage until 1938.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Charlie Whittle was a man of the people. He came from Bradford and looked as though he had dropped his pick somewhere and just walked on! He had a rough, bluff style which went down very well. He invited us to “Let’s all go down the Strand” <\/em>and added that if we had a banana as well, everything would be all right. After all “We all go the same way home”<\/em> as Charlie kept on telling us.<\/p>\nGJ Mellor, The Northern Music Hall<\/em>, p88<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Charlie Whittle sings it:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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