{"id":23763,"date":"2024-02-29T10:34:08","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T10:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/folksongandmusichall.com\/?page_id=23763"},"modified":"2025-01-01T14:40:42","modified_gmt":"2025-01-01T14:40:42","slug":"when-the-summer-comes-again","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/folksongandmusichall.com\/index.php\/when-the-summer-comes-again\/","title":{"rendered":"When the summer comes again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
AKA<\/strong><\/td>Three pots a shilling<\/td><\/tr>
First Published<\/td>1895<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Writer\/composer<\/td>Harry Bedford<\/td>Roud<\/strong><\/td>RN32449<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Music Hall Performers<\/strong><\/td>Kate Carney<\/td><\/tr>
Folk performances<\/strong><\/td>Collected from the singing of:<\/strong>
Keeping Family ; England : Lambeth ; 1930s-50s
Unknown singer : England : Essex ; 1970<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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From Music Hall Memories No 16, p132<\/strong>\n\nOh! won't we save some money, Nell, \nWhen the summer comes again,\nLife will be all honey, gell,\nWhen the summer comes again;\nWe shall roam all round the country, \nWith pretty flow'rs, sunshine or rain, \nStraight! we'll buy up Covent Garden, \nWhen the summer comes again.\n\nWhen the summer comes again \nAnd the pretty flow'rs are growing, \nThe sunshine after rain,\nThe summer breezes blowing; \nThen to roam around the country \nWith a girl who's ever willing\nI can buy and she can cry,\n`Three pots a shilling!' <\/em>\n\nSweet window flow'rs' then you'll cry, Nell, \nWhen the summer comes again,\nToffs from us will buy 'em, gell, \nWhen the summer comes again; \nFor I knows the best of houses, \nWhere lots of profit we can gain,\nSplendid clothes they'll give for flowers, \nWhen the summer comes again.\n\nOh! won't we turn out dashing, Nell, \nWhen the summer comes again, \nFolks will talk about it, gell,\nWhen the summer comes again; \nYou shall dress in 'broshey' velvet, \nMe a silver watch and chain,\nLet coves see we knows our book Nell, \nWhen the summer comes again.\n\n\n<\/pre>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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A big hit in 1895, still sung at Keeping family get togethers in the 1930s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This song was the first great success for coster comic Kate Carney<\/a> and was written and composed by Harry Bedford<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Elsa Lanchester, the British actress and cabaret performer, performed the song as part of her Music Hall revival act in the early 1960s.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
Sung by Elsa Lanchester in 1960, from Archive.com<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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