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First Published<\/td>1926<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Writer\/composer<\/td>Will Hyde<\/td>Roud<\/strong><\/td>RN10713<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Music Hall Performers<\/strong><\/td>George West<\/td><\/tr>
Folk performances<\/strong><\/td>Collected from the singing of:<\/strong>
Aldous, Manny ; England : Suffolk : no date<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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From Sheet Music held in the British Library<\/strong>

The Bobbed Haired Family
Words and Music by Will Hyde. Sung by George West.

Our family, without a doubt, is always up to date
No matter what the passion is with it we\u2019re never late;
As soon as anything comes up we\u2019re on it like a shot
We will be in the fashion! Oh, we are a funny lot!

Father\u2019s had his bald head shingled
Uncle's had his sideboards bobbed
Brother Bill has been and had his toothbrush shaved,
Mother\u2019s been and had her grey hair marcel waved:
Little sister Sue is in the fashion too
This bobbed hair craze has sent her up the tree
And our cat the other night, lost his whiskers in a fight
We\u2019re the bobbed-haired family<\/em>

Now mother with her Marcel wave she fairly takes the bun, 
She\u2019s going on for fifty but she don\u2019t look twenty-one;
The other day it was a lark, we heard a dreadful wail, 
Our pup sat on the curling irons and burnt his \u201cDaily Mail\u201d

It\u2019s combs and scissors in our house from morning until night,
To be the first to use them all my sisters have a fight;
We\u2019ve only got one looking glass and on it there\u2019s a crack,
Thro\u2019 using it so much they\u2019ve worn the silver off the back.
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The popularity of shorter hairstyles for women was at its height in the second half of the 1920s. “The Bob”-a distinctive style worn by actresses Louise Bro0ks, Clara Bow and others and “shingling”, a style of layering, were particularly popular, these are just some of the “bobbed hair” songs registered for copyright by British and American music publishers in 1926:<\/p>\n\n\n\n