{"id":23334,"date":"2024-01-31T14:45:43","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T14:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/folksongandmusichall.com\/?page_id=23334"},"modified":"2024-01-31T14:48:46","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T14:48:46","slug":"oh-charley-take-it-away","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/folksongandmusichall.com\/index.php\/oh-charley-take-it-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh, Charley , Take it Away"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
AKA<\/strong><\/td>Oh Charlie Take it Away
Mary Ann Matilda<\/td><\/tr>
First Published<\/td>1926<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Writer\/composer<\/td>Elvin Hedges Fred Malcolm and Arthur Le Clerq<\/td>Roud<\/strong><\/td>RN19674<\/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>
Legg, Viv; England : Cornwall; c2006<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Mary Ann Matilda came to London town to see\nA chap named Charlie Green, who for years she hadn't seen.\nWhen she found he had grown a small moustache, she murmured \"Oh!\" \nHe asked her if she liked it, and Matilda shouted \"No!\"\n\nOh, Charlie take it away. Oh, Charlie, take it away. \nIt makes me feel so funny every time you start to kiss. \nIt makes me quiver, it makes me shiver, \nIt fills me full with bliss.\nOh, Charlie take it away! Oh, Charlie do what I say!\nIt's the little bit of hair you wear upon your upper lip.\nIt tickles me, Charlie! Take it away!<\/em>\n\nShe asked him why he grew it, he replied, \"Matilda dear,\nI couldn't help it quite, for it sprung up in the night -\nIt might make you remember me\" and Mary with a blush,\nReplied \"I'll think of you each time I see a scrubbing brush!\"\n\nSaid Mary: \"If that was in your system Charlie dear\nThere's not the slightest doubt, its a blessing you got them out!\"\nHe tried to pacify her then, he kissed her rosy cheek\nShe shouted out: \"You've stung me and I'll feel the sting for weeks!\"\n<\/pre>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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A comic song performed by traditional Romany singer Viv Legg as Mary Ann Matilda<\/em> for collector John Adams in approximately 2006. The recording is available on VT153CD  Romany Roots<\/em>: ‘Cornish Family songs\u2019<\/em> a CD\/download from Veteran Mail Order<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The original song was written some 80 years earlier as a comedy march two-step  and performed in the dance halls and music halls of the late 1920s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The song was most associated with the singing of Florrie Forde , but it was also recorded by Harry Fay, Tom Gilbert and Paul Godwin’s Dance Orchestra, amongst others.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
As recorded by Harry Fay:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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