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AKA<\/strong><\/td>Serving them all alike<\/td><\/tr>
First Published<\/td>1897<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Writer\/composer<\/td>Harry Wincott and Harry Castling<\/td>Roud<\/strong><\/td>RN37098<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Music Hall Performers<\/strong><\/td>Tom Leamore<\/td><\/tr>
Folk performances<\/strong><\/td>none that i’m aware of<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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I got a job not a week ago,\nTo serve in a doctor's shop,\nThere's only one medicine in the place,\nand it's warranted, every drop.\nIf a fellow comes in with a broken leg,\nOr the 'Flipperty-Flopperty-Floop',\nI mix him a dose of the very same stuff,\nAs I give to a kid with the croup. Well...\n\nI'm serving 'em all alike, serving 'em all alike,\nMixing the poisons together, you see,\nGiving 'em all such a lux0u-ry,\nEvery time I'm giving 'em all the spike,\nMakin 'em hop out of the shop,\nServing 'em all alike!<\/em>\n\nI've got a girl, well I reckon I've got,\nFrom twenty to forty four,\nAnd every time I go out in the street,\nI'm looking about for more.\nI tell 'em a beautiful tale, you know,\nWell, talk about being a jew.\nI ask for a kiss and then what do you think?\nI borrow a shilling or two. Well...\n\nI'm serving 'em all alike, serving 'em all alike,\nTell 'em to meet me and bring some 'oof',\nTalk about playing a game at spoof\nEvery time I'm giving 'em all the spike,\nDoing the biz, with Maudie and Liz,\nServing 'em all alike!<\/em>\n\nMy missus told me she wouldn't sit down\nTo make any more childrens clothes,\nTo put on the backs of the youngsters, well,\nI thought to myself, 'Here goes!\nThey can't go to school it's a certainty,\nWith nothing upon their.'\nSo I got little Jim and I paint-ed him,\nWith a bottle of Brunswick Black, and\n\nI'm serving 'em all alike, serving 'em all alike,\nI reckon, you know, I can save some quids,\nMaking 'em look like Zulu kids.\nEvery time I'm giving 'em all the spike,\nDabbing it on, Polly and John,\nServing 'em all alike!<\/em>\n\nNow, every day at my street door,\nThere's any amount of knocks,\nThe butcher, the baker and every-one,\nWants money but bless my socks!\nI've invented a splendid idea, you see,\nFor whenever I open the door,\nA seventy pound sledge-hammer tumbles out\nAnd catches 'em under the jaw. Well...\n\nI'm serving 'em all alike, serving 'em all alike,\nBefore they've got time to say, Mr. Drew',\nThey're picking their teeth up and noses too.\nEvery time I'm giving 'em all the spike,\nMaking 'em shout, flooping 'em out,\nServing 'em all alike.<\/em><\/pre>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
 A big hit in 1897 for Tom Leamore<\/a>, written and composed by  Harry Wincott <\/a>and Harry Castling<\/a>. As far as I know it is not passed into the repertoire of traditional singers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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