{"id":22764,"date":"2023-12-18T08:28:45","date_gmt":"2023-12-18T08:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/folksongandmusichall.com\/?page_id=22764"},"modified":"2023-12-19T07:08:56","modified_gmt":"2023-12-19T07:08:56","slug":"wont-go","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/folksongandmusichall.com\/index.php\/wont-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Won’t Go!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
AKA<\/strong><\/td>Father got a job <\/td><\/tr>
First Published<\/td>1925<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Writer\/composer<\/td>Harry Castling \/ JA Tunbridge<\/td>Roud<\/strong><\/td>RN13703<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Music Hall Performers<\/strong><\/td>SW Wyndham<\/td><\/tr>
Folk performances<\/strong><\/td>Collected from the singing of:<\/strong>
Palmer, Freda ; England : Oxfordshire ; 1978<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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From Feldman's Sheet Music (personal copy)\n\nWON'T GO\nWords by Harry Castling. Music by JA Tunbridge.\n\nA year ago our homestead was busy as a hive, \nEverybody was alive, \nAnd went off to work at five; \nBut now nobody seems to want to earn their daily bread, \nAnd when it's time to go work \nThey all go up to bed. \n\nFather's got a job and he won't go, \nMaria won't go, and the fire won't go; \nOn our divan, he came there in a van, \nIs a six-foot broker's man, and he won't go. \nThe hens won't lay, the cocks won't crow, \nThe lodger in the attic and the clock won't go; \nAnd mother's got a pimple on the tip her nose, \nOh, Jerusalem, and that won't go.<\/em>\n\nThe only one who tries now is our little servant Jane \nShe gets up in a hail or rain. \nThen goes back to bed again; \nOur yellow Persian cat he used to wander miles and miles \nBut he's too lazy now to go \nGamboling on the tiles\n\nTo mention work to father now, he says it makes him ill, \nIts the same with uncle Will, \nDown his spine it sends a chill; \nOnce Ma was so industrious and round the house she'd buzz, \nBut poulticing the pimples now is\nThe only work she does!\n<\/pre>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Won’t Go!<\/em> was a hit in the Halls of 1925 for former blackface minstrel SW Wyndham<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The song was  published by Feldman’s, who advertised it as a follow up to  Turned Up<\/em><\/a>, an earlier song also co-authored by Harry Castling<\/a>. Feldman’s also promoted it for use in the coming pantomime season (1925\/26). <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It featured in the repertoire of Freda Palmer of Leafield who learnt many of her songs whilst working as a child glove-maker.(She remembered the chorus)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Freda Palmer sings the chorus (downloaded from VWML<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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