{"id":25744,"date":"2024-12-13T10:03:05","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T10:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/folksongandmusichall.com\/?page_id=25744"},"modified":"2024-12-13T10:03:07","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T10:03:07","slug":"jerusalems-dead-the","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/folksongandmusichall.com\/index.php\/jerusalems-dead-the\/","title":{"rendered":"Jerusalem’s Dead, The"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
AKA<\/strong><\/td><\/td><\/tr>
First Published<\/td>1895<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Writer\/composer<\/td>Brian Daly \/ John Crook<\/td>Roud<\/strong><\/td>RN32447<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Music Hall Performers<\/strong><\/td>Albert Chevalier<\/td><\/tr>
Folk performances<\/strong><\/td>Collected from the singing of:<\/strong>
Keeping family ; England : London ; 1930s \u2013 1950s<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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I\u2019ve \u2019ad four \u2019arf-pints at the \u201cMagpie an\u2019 Stump\u2019, 
An\u2019 two goes o\u2019 rum jes ter keep up my sperrits; 
My mince-pies are waterin\u2019 jes like a pump, 
An\u2019 they\u2019re red as a ferrit\u2019s. 
Cos why? \u2019Tain\u2019t the missis or kids wot I\u2019ve lost,
But one wot I carefullie doctored an\u2019 fed; 
The nussin\u2019 an\u2019 watchin\u2019 \u2019as turned out a frost\u2014 
The Jeerusalem\u2019s dead! 

Yer won\u2019t see \u2019im pullin\u2019 the barrer no more 
Wi\u2019 me an\u2019 the missis a-sellin\u2019 the coke; 
'E died \u2019s arfernoon at a quarter ter four, 
But I think that it\u2019s rougher on me than the moke. <\/em>

\u2019E\u2019ad a big \u2019eart and a strong pair o\u2019 \u2019eels, 
A temper as short as was e\u2019er manifactured; 
In \u2019arness \u2019e used ter do \u2019ornpipes an\u2019 reels, 
An\u2019 my ribs \u2019e once fractured! 
\u2019E bit like the devil, and eat like a \u2019orse, 
An\u2019 orfen \u2019e\u2019d try ter stan\u2019 up on \u2019is \u2019ead; 
It\u2019s all over now wiv \u2019is tricks an\u2019 \u2019is sauce, 
The Jeerusalem\u2019s dead! 

I stroked \u2019is old \u2019ead as \u2019e laid in the stall, 
An\u2019 some\u2019ow or other I felt I must kiss \u2019im! 
I\u2019ve a wife an\u2019 some youngsters \u2014 \u2019e wasn\u2019t quite all, 
But I know I shall miss \u2019im. 
There\u2019s one thing I\u2019m certain, \u2019is grub was the best,
An\u2019 I\u2019ve gone short myself ter purvide \u2019im a bed: 
Come \u2019an \u2019ave \u2019arf a pint \u2014 there\u2019s a lump in my chest 
The Jeerusalem\u2019s dead! <\/pre>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
A sentimental comic Cockney song sung in the 1890s by \u00a0Albert Chevalier<\/a>, later remembered at Keeping family sing-songs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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