{"id":27515,"date":"2025-06-18T09:42:25","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T09:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/folksongandmusichall.com\/?page_id=27515"},"modified":"2025-06-18T09:48:20","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T09:48:20","slug":"waltz-me-around-again-willie-around-around-around","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/folksongandmusichall.com\/index.php\/waltz-me-around-again-willie-around-around-around\/","title":{"rendered":"Waltz me around again, Willie (Around, Around, Around)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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First Published<\/td>1906<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Words\/music<\/td>Will D Cobb \/ Ren Shields<\/td>Roud<\/strong><\/td>RN208<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Music Hall Performers<\/strong><\/td>Numerous artistes including Florrie Forde, Margaret Cooper<\/td><\/tr>
Folk performances<\/strong><\/td>Collected from the singing of:<\/strong>
US Soldiers in WW1,
Clark, LaRena ; Canada : Ontario ; 1917<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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From 1906 Sheet Music (Levy Collection)

Willie Fitzgibbons who used to sell ribbons
And stood up all day on his feet,
Grew very spoony, on Madelaine Mooney,
Who\u2019d rather be dancing than eat.
Each evening she\u2019d tag him, to some dance hall drag him,
And when the band started to play,
She\u2019d up like a silly, and grab tired Willie,
Steer him on the floor and she\u2019d say:

\u201cWaltz me around again, Willie, around, around, around!
The music is dreamy, it\u2019s peaches and creamy,
Oh! don\u2019t let my feet touch the ground.
I feel like a ship on an ocean of joy,
I just want to holler out loud, \u2018Ship Ahoy!\u2019
Oh! waltz me around again, Willie, around, around, around!\u201d<\/em>

Willie DeVere was a dry goods cashier
At his desk he would sit all the day.
\u2019Till his Doctor advised him to start exercising,
Or else he would soon fade away.
One night this poor looney met Madelaine Mooney
Fitzgibbons, then shouted with joy,
\u201cShe\u2019s a good health-regainer, you\u2019ve got a great trainer!
Just wait \u2019till she hollers, my boy.\"<\/pre>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
A big hit in 1906, sung in several theatre productions in the New York and London, as well as in American vaudeville theatres and British Music Halls – basically anywhere where  popular songs were performed. It was written by the American Tin Pan Alley songwriters Will D Cobb and Ren Shields.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was extremely popular amongst English speaking troops in the World Wars – for whom it provided a convenient way of linking together bawdy limericks, for example the relatively polite version recorded by Oscar Brand in 1949 (see below and also this Mudcat Thread<\/a> )<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Florrie Forde sings it:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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