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First Published<\/td>1908<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Writer\/composer<\/td>Terry Sullivan and Harry Gifford<\/td>Roud<\/strong><\/td>RN20269<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Music Hall Performers<\/strong><\/td>Wilkie Bard ; Sam Mayo<\/td><\/tr>
Folk performances<\/strong><\/td>Collected from the singing of:<\/strong>
Thomas, Kathleen ; Canada : Nova Scotia ; 1925
Bentall, Brenda ; England ; 1970
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I've just had a letter to say I'm engaged
To appear in the pantomime
The part I've too play is the principal boy
So I'm in for a beautiful time
The panto's Dick Whittington, I'm dirty Dick
The fellow who once wrote to York
The manager says I must get a good song 
About which the public will talk
I have commissioned some authors to write me a song;
A very fine chorus they sent me a long!

She sells sea shells on the sea shore.
The shells she sells are seashells, I'm sure
For if she sells shells on the seashore,
Then I\u2019m sure she sells seashore shells.<\/em>
[twice]

The seashells are a terrible sell
And the song is a \"sell\" also
The authors both say it will go very big,
But I fear I am all that will go
I've suffered from lockjaw and stick jaw as well, 
In trying this chorus to sing 
Its making me Lisp, but I shay to myshelf, 
The shongs shure to go with a shwing
I'm dreaming of seashells when I am in bed
I only wish she would sell matches instead!


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A song first sung in 1908 by Wilke Bard in the Halls (a brief biography appears below). He recommended the chorus “as a test of sobriety” – here’s a review of Bard in Portsmouth:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Hampshire Post and Southsea Observer – Friday 13 November 1908<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
It was a huge hit in pantomimes in the 1908\/09 season for example, Bard sang it in the pantomime Dick Whittington <\/em>at Drury Lane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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