{"id":21953,"date":"2023-11-12T11:40:42","date_gmt":"2023-11-12T11:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/folksongandmusichall.com\/?page_id=21953"},"modified":"2023-11-12T11:40:44","modified_gmt":"2023-11-12T11:40:44","slug":"wireless-on-the-brain","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/folksongandmusichall.com\/index.php\/wireless-on-the-brain\/","title":{"rendered":"Wireless on the Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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First Published<\/td>1922<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Writer\/composer<\/td>JP Harrington \/ Howard Flynn<\/td>Roud<\/strong><\/td>RN16223<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Music Hall Performers<\/strong><\/td>Ernie Mayne<\/td><\/tr>
Folk performances<\/strong><\/td>Collected from the singing of:<\/strong>
Ling, Ruby; England : Suffolk; 1975-80<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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WIRELESS ON THE BRAIN\nmonologues.co.uk<\/a>\n\nIf I ever meet that son of a gun who first invented wireless\r\nI'll kill 'im, I'll kill 'im, I'll have his bally gore\r\nAt listening-in my dear old Dutch is absolutely tireless\r\nAnd when I want to fall asleep and snore\r\nShe went and bought a wireless set and what a wreck I feel\r\nWe 'ave a bloomin' opera with every blinkin' meal.\r\n\r\nMy wife Jane she's got wireless on the brain\r\nWhile she's taking messages, I send S.O.S-ages\r\nEven in my bye-bye, she cries, 'You lazy Turk\r\nCan't you 'ear the wireless. It's time you started work.'<\/em>\r\n\r\nShe gabbles about her wireless ways, her aerials and broadcasting\r\nNo error, a terror my old girl's going to be\r\nAnd when I sit down at breakfast time, I've 'ad to sit there fasting\r\n'Cos she, all smiles, is listening-in you see\r\nShe says, Lloyd George is speaking now\r\nThen I shout good and strong\r\n'Ere, ain't it nearly time some wireless kippers came along.\r\n\r\nI jolly well wish that missis of mine had never met Marconi\r\nI'm worried, I'm flurried, I tremble like a mouse\r\nI'm pretty well near off my filbert, and I'm not so far from stoney\r\nFor everything is wireless in our house\r\nOur wireless dog keeps barking outside on his wireless chain\r\nAnd upstairs in the attic they've 'ad wireless twins again.\r\n\r\nMy wife Jane she's got wireless on the brain\r\nWhile she's taking messages, I send S.O.S-ages\r\nEven in my bye-bye, she's shouting out, 'Police\r\nWho's upset the turkey. He's mopping up the grease?'<\/em><\/pre>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
A song from the early 1920s, lyrics written by John P Harrington<\/a> with music by\u00a0Howard Flynn. It was performed by the popular comedian Ernie Mayne<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the 1970s it was collected by Ginette Dunn from the singing of Ruby Ling, one of a generation of great pub singers active in and around Suffolk in the 1960s and 70s. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ernie Mayne sings it:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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